Ullubay Buynaksky

He was born on 27 August [8 September] 1890 in the village of Ullu-Buynak (Ullubiyaul) in the Dagestan Oblast, in the family of a hereditary Kumyk nobleman (uzden) and career military officer; his father served as a second lieutenant. He studied at the law faculty of Imperial Moscow University. In 1916 he became a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, for which he was expelled from the university. ^{1 2}

After the February Revolution he conducted party work in the Khamovnichesky District of Moscow. In November 1917 he headed the military revolutionary committee of Port-Petrovsk (now Makhachkala). From April 1918 he was a member of the Regional Military Revolutionary Committee, which was transformed in June into the Regional Executive Committee of Soviets, where he headed the legal department. At the end of July 1918 he was sent to Moscow, returning at the end of January 1919, by which time Soviet power in Dagestan had fallen before the invasion of Lazar Bicherakhov's forces and Korkmasov's government had gone underground. ^{2 1}

He reached Dagestan illegally and made his way to the heights of Ullu-Tau near Kumtor-Kala, where the Regional Executive Committee headed by Djelal ed-Din Korkmasov functioned underground, most of its members drawn from the Dagestan Socialist Group. At the Kumtor-Kala conference of early February 1919 the Dagestan Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was formed, the Socialist Group dissolved itself into it, and Buynaksky was elected chairman of the Regional Committee; the conference also transformed the Regional Executive Committee into a Military Council under Korkmasov, charged with organising and leading the uprising against the occupiers. ^{2 1}

After Bicherakhov's forces were expelled from Dagestan following battles with Ottoman units, the government of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, under pressure from local military forces, agreed to arrest Buynaksky and other communists who were preparing a coup d'état; they were arrested at a meeting on 13 May 1919. At the end of May, pro-British detachments of the Armed Forces of South Russia invaded Dagestan and dissolved the Mountainous Republic; Buynaksky was transferred to the Port-Petrovsk prison. The remaining Bolsheviks, led by Korkmasov, raised an unsuccessful uprising in July. The arrested Bolsheviks, including Buynaksky, were brought before a military sharia court on 10 (23) July, sentenced first to hard labour and then to execution; both articles' texts narrate that the sentence was carried out on 18 August 1919 in the area of the Temirgoe station, while both articles' leads, and Wikidata, give the date of his death as 16 August — the split is recorded in this museum's data record. He was buried in a mass grave with other executed revolutionaries in Temir-Khan-Shura, among them Mahach Dahadayev and Sultan-Said Kazbekov. ^{2 1 3}

In 1921 the city of Temir-Khan-Shura, the capital of Dagestan, was renamed Buynaksk in his honour. Ullubiyaul (former Boynak), Ullubiyevka (Novopokrovka), Ullubi-Yurt (former New Jelal) and, from 1944 to 1957, the village of Church-Irzu (as Ullubiy) were also renamed for him, as were streets in Makhachkala and other settlements in Dagestan and in Astrakhan, Rostov-on-Don, Stavropol, Grozny, Chervlennaya station, Kizlyar village and Achikulak settlement. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia carries an entry on him, and biographies appeared by A. Takho-Godi (Makhachkala, 1928) and T. T. Magomedov (Moscow, 1968). ^{2 1}

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