Meshadi Azizbekov - Legacy

Legacy

In Soviet Union, Azizbekov was portrayed as one of the fallen heroes of Russian Revolution. He was portrayed in movies, one being by Azeri actor Malik Dadashev in the film called 26 Baku Commissars! (1966) and also in 26 Commissars in 1933. He was portrayed by actor Ajar actor Nodar Shashigoglu in Azerbaijani film Morning (1960). The first historical narrative in Azerbaijani literature Komissar by writer Mehdi Huseyn features Azizbekov as the main character. He, along with other Baku Commissars was subject to many films, documentaries, novels and even poems of the Soviet Union, notably the 26-lar by Samed Vurgun, the novels Fighting City and Mysterious Baku by Mammad Said Ordubadi, also works of Nikolai Tikhonov, Nairi Zarian, Suleyman Rustam, Yeghishe Charents, Mikayil Mushfig, Vasily Kamensky, Paolo Iashvili, Semyon Kirsanov, Mirvarid Dilbazi, and Sergey Yesenin.

The towns of Vayk, Aregnadem and Zarritap, all being in Armenia were officially nameda as Azizbekov in Soviet era. Bust of his in metro station in Georgia and one of the central parks of Armenia, monument and metro station in Azerbaijan were removed during in last decades. Khazar raion was officially called Azizbekov until 2010. The street named after him in Turkmenistan was changed in recent years as well.

His monument in Yerevan, then capital of Armenian SSR was the first communist memorial that is demolished in Armenia. Despite the official version of the falling of the monument was that a trucker ran into it with losing control of the vehicle, still it's dubious to many that was it really an accident or premidental act, as Azizbekov happened to be an Azerbaijani.

However still an avenue, street in Baku, villages in Goygol and Goranboy regions of Azerbaijan, a city in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic is officially called Azizbekov. There are streets named after him in Kazakhstan (Almaty, Taraz), Russia (Volgograd, Astrakhan), Tajikistan (Dushanbe), Ukraine (Kryvyi Rih, Donetsk), and Uzbekistan (Jizzakh). There's an alleyway in Magaramkent (Dagestan) named after him.