Urunboi Ashurovich Ashurov ( Tajik:Ӯрунбой Ашӯров) (1903–1938) was

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan was the head of the Communist Party of Tajikistan and the highest Executive power in the republic of Tajikistan from 1924 until November 1990. History Shortly after the Soviet Union was f ...

between September 1937 and March 1938. He was born in

Fergana Fergana ( uz, Fargʻona/Фарғона, ), or Ferghana, is a district-level city and the capital of Fergana Region in eastern Uzbekistan. Fergana is about 420 km east of Tashkent, about 75 km west of Andijan, and less than 20 km fr ...

and was executed during the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secret ...

References

* Starr, S. Frederick,
Ferghana Valley: The Heart of Central Asia
', London and New York, Routledge, 2011, p. 139. 1903 births 1938 deaths People from Fergana People from Fergana Oblast First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Tajikistan Great Purge victims from Uzbekistan Heads of government of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic {{Tajikistan-politician-stub Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour