Fayzulla Khodzhayev

فيض الله خوجاييف

1 June 1896 CE · 19 Dhu al-Hijja 1313 AH† – 15 March 1938 CE · 13 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.

Bukhara

Bukharan and Uzbek Soviet politician (1896–1938): a Jadid and Young Bukharan leader who became the first head of government of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic (1920–1924) and then chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Uzbek SSR (1924–1937). Removed in June 1937, he was a defendant at the Trial of the Twenty-One and was shot at Kommunarka on 15 March 1938; he was rehabilitated in the 1960s.