Nusratullo Maksum

نصرت الله مخسوم

1 July 1881 CE · 3 Sha'ban 1298 AH† – 1 November 1937 CE · 28 Sha'ban 1356 AH† †

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

Tajik Soviet politician (1881–1937): the first Prime Minister of the Tajik SSR, in 1925–1926, and the Tajik representative on the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee from 1926 to 1933; executed by firing squad in the Great Purge; after Tajikistan's independence his portrait was placed on the 200-somoni banknote.