Akmal Ikramov

أكمل إكراموف

September 1898 CE · Rabi' II 1316 AH† – 13 March 1938 CE · 11 Muharram 1357 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Uzbek Soviet politician (1898–1938), first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from 1929 to 1937 and the first ethnic Uzbek in that post, who drove collectivisation and the cotton campaign in Uzbekistan and designed the anti-Islamic measures of the first five-year plan there. A defendant at the Trial of the Twenty-One, he was shot at Kommunarka in March 1938 and rehabilitated in 1957.