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|name            = Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan
|image           = File:Levon Mirzoyan.jpg
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|office1          = First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR
|term_start1      = December 5, 1936
|term_end1        = May 3, 1938
|predecessor1     = '''None''' ''(Position created)''
|successor1       = [[Nikolay Skvortsov (Politician)|Nikolay Skvortsov]]
|office2          = Secretary of the Kazakh Regional Committee [[All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)|All-Union Communist Party]]
|term_start2      = February, 1933
|term_end2        = December 5, 1936
|predecessor2     = [[Filipp Goloshchyokin]]
|successor2       = '''None''' ''(Position abolished)''
|birth_date      = December 1887
|birth_place     = Ashan Village, Shusha District, [[Elisabethpol Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]
|death_date      = {{death date and age|1939|2|26|1887|12|mf=yes}}
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|nationality     = [[Armenians|Armenian]]
|party           = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]]
|spouse          = Yulia Tevossian
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'''Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan''' ({{lang-hy|Լևոն Եսայիի Միրզոյան}}; {{lang-ru|Левон Исаевич Мирзоян}}) was the Secretary of the Communist Party of the [[Azeri SSR]] from January 21, 1926 to August 5, 1929 and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the [[Kazakh SSR]] from December 5, 1936 to May 3, 1938. He was executed during the [[Great Purge]].

==History==
Mirzoyan was born in the village of Ashan in [[Shushinsky Uyezd|Shusha District]] of the [[Elisabethpol Governorate]] in an [[Armenians|Armenian]] peasant family. In 1917, he joined the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] (RSDLP). In 1926&ndash;1929, he was the First Secretary of the Communist Part of Azerbaijan. In 1929&ndash;1933, he was the Secretary of the Perm Regional Committee, then the 2nd Secretary of the Ural Regional Committee of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU). In 1933, he became the 1st Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Party of Kazakhstan. In 1937, he became the 1st secretary of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Kazakhstan. He was a member of the CEC of the USSR.

According to Aimdos Bozjigitov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Armenia, Mirzoyan "He did very much for the formation and development of Kazakhstan’s economy."<ref>{{cite news|title=Economic cooperation Achilles’ heel of Armenian-Kazakh relations|url=http://news.am/eng/news/43121.html|work=news.am|date=8 January 2011}}</ref> He also added that "Kazakh people call him Mirza-jan, and so far all remember him with gratitude."<ref>{{cite web|title=The visit of the delegation of Eurasian National University to YSU|url=http://www.ysu.am/news/en/LaJHrxYVqVr3hwgv7K0aXDQrTW|website=ysu.am|publisher=[[Yerevan State University]]|date=20 April 2011}}</ref>

In 1938, Mirzoyan sent a telegram to [[Joseph Stalin]] and [[Vyacheslav Molotov]], in which he expressed his disagreement with the decision to move the Koreans deported to Kazakhstan in 1936 from Primorye, in the southern part of the republic, to the north, where they could not engage in rice cultivation. He also expressed his doubts about the working methods of the NKVD (the Soviet secret service later known as the [[KGB]]). In the summer of 1938, Mirzoyan was arrested and detained in [[Lefortovo Prison]] in Moscow. On February 26, 1939, he was executed. He was [[rehabilitation (Soviet)|rehabilitated]] in 1958.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cite web|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Kazakhstan.htm|title=Kazakhstan|publisher=World Statesmen|accessdate=7 March 2010}}

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[[Category:1887 births]]
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[[Category:People from Shushi Province]]
[[Category:People from Elisabethpol Governorate]]
[[Category:Communist Party of Kazakhstan politicians]]
[[Category:Azerbaijani Armenians]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani Armenians]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin]]
[[Category:Great Purge victims]]
[[Category:Armenian people executed by the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Soviet rehabilitations]]
[[Category:Armenian atheists]]

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