Saftar Mammad oghlu Jafarov (; 1900 – 16 November 1961) was an

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i politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of

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(1959–1961).

Biography

Saftar Jafarov was born in 1900 in Pirshagi village of Baku Uyezd to a peasant family. He started working for private entrepreneurs at the age of 15. During those years he joined the

labor movement The labour movement is the collective organisation of working people to further their shared political and economic interests. It consists of the trade union or labour union movement, as well as political parties of labour. It can be considere ...

. In April 1920, when the Soviet government was established in Azerbaijan, Saftar Jafarov joined the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

, and in October of that year he became a member of the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...

. He served in the Red Army until 1932, rising from an ordinary soldier to a political worker. He was a military commissar of the battalion and regiment, assistant to the chief of staff of the division on political issues, and then military prosecutor of the Second Caucasian İnfantry Division and the Caspian Navy named after Styopin. From 1932 to 1935 he worked as prosecutor of the Azerbaijan SSR, and from 1933 as a People's Commissar of Justice of the Azerbaijan SSR. Later he was chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, permanent representative of the Azerbaijani SSR under the

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, and in October 1940 he was appointed People's Commissar of Land of the Azerbaijan SSR. Saftar Jafarov was elected Secretary of the Presidium of the

Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR The Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR, later renamed as the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Republic from 1991 until its abolition in 1995, was the Supreme Soviet, supreme soviet (main Legislature, legislative institution) of the Azerbaijan ...

in early 1947, Deputy Chairman in 1957, and chairman in November 1959. From 1959 he was a member of the political bureau of the Central Committee of the

Communist Party of Azerbaijan The Azerbaijan Communist Party (; ) was the ruling political party in the Azerbaijan SSR, making it effectively a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was formed on 20 February 1920, when the Muslim Social Democratic Party, ...

. Saftar Jafarov was a representative of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the 19th–25th Congresses of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. At the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, he was elected a member of the Central Audit Commission of the CPSU. He also was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR of 1–5 convocations. Saftar Jafarov died of cardiovascular disease in

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on November 16, 1961. He was buried in the

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on November 19.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jafarov, Saftar 1900 births 1961 deaths Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Azerbaijani politicians Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic