Shaymardan Nurimanovich Ibragimov (March 23 [April 4], 1899, the selo of Petryaksy in Sergach Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — February 12, 1957, Moscow) was a Soviet party and state official, a native of what is now the Pilninsky Municipal Okrug of Nizhny Novgorod Region. A participant in the revolutionary movement and in the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, he held senior posts in the nationalities policy of the RSFSR and in the party apparatus during the 1920s.[1]
Origins and Early Years
He was born in the Tatar selo (a larger village) of Petryaksy, after which his family moved to Moscow, where he worked at the Bonaker factory.[1] In 1915 he joined the RSDLP(b). He was arrested for his revolutionary activity and released after the February Revolution.[1]
Party and State Career
During the Civil War, Ibragimov served as deputy political commissar of the Muslim infantry courses in Kazan and as secretary of the Central Bureau of Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East; he took part in the creation of the Tatar ASSR and became a member of its Central Executive Committee (1920).[1][2] He took part in suppressing the Kronstadt rebellion.[1]
From 1921 to 1923 he headed the Plenipotentiary Commission of the Central Committee of the VKP(b), the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, and the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR for the affairs of Crimea, while also serving on the board of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities (Narkomnats) of the RSFSR.[1] The personnel file of a Narkomnats executive with his biographical data is held in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF. F. 1318. Op. 21. D. 386. L. 1–21).[3]
In 1923–1926 he studied at the Communist Academy, while simultaneously working as assistant head of the Organizational and Distribution Department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and as a senior instructor of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)/All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).[1] In 1926–1928 he was secretary (head of the party organization) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR.[1] From 1928 to 1937 he was a member of the executive committee of the Moscow Soviet and a member of the Leningrad City Soviet.[1] In 1937 he moved to administrative and economic work in the USSR Ministry of Light Industry.[1][2]
Participation in the Great Patriotic War
During the Great Patriotic War he fought on the Northwestern and Leningrad Fronts.[1] He was awarded the Order of the Red Star (March 25, 1943), the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class (June 15, 1945), and the Order of the Red Banner.[1]
Memory
He is buried at the Danilovskoye Muslim Cemetery in Moscow.[1] A street in his native village of Petryaksy bears Ibragimov's name.[1] In eastern Moscow, near the Semyonovskaya metro station, there is also a street named in his honor, in recognition of his contribution to the development of that part of the city.[2]
Sources
- names52.ru — Ibragimov Shaymardan Nurimanovich
- millattashlar.ru — Ibragimov Shaymardan Nurimanovich — Millättäshlär
- docs.historyrussia.org — Electronic Library of Historical Documents (ELHD) — Ibragimov Shaymardan Nurimanovich. Questionnaire of a Responsible Official of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities