(Stepan Shahumyan) - Soviet Armenian Song by Hovhannes Badalyan

Stepan Shahumyan was a Armenian Bolshevik and revolutionary who led the Revolution in the Caucasus. He would become leader of the Baku Commune in 1918 along with other revolutionaries such as Mashadi Azizbeyov (ethnic Azerbaijani), Prokofy Dzhaparidze (ethnic Georgian), and Ivan Fioletov (ethnic Russian). The Commune was dismantled by counter-revolutionary elements in Baku and the four commissars along with their comrades were executed in 1920. There are many places that were named in honor of Stepan Shahumyan, this includes the capital of the Republic of Artsakh, Stepanakert, and a region north of Artsakh, Shahumyan. The region of Shahumyan was depopulated of its Armenian population in 1991 by the Azerbaijani SSR under the order of the counter-revolutionary Mikhail Gorbachev. In the background, a painting depicting the execution of Stepan Shahumyan, Mashadi Azizbeyov, Prokofy Dzhaparidze, and Ivan Fioletov. It was painted by Isaak Brodsky in 1925. On the foreground is the Seal of Soviet Armenia which