military tribunal commissariats were also created. During this period, Ziya Yusif Talibzadeh was appointed the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for a short period of time. His good relations with the Turkish pashas served to strengthen the security of Nakhchivan. Returning to Baku at the end of 1922, Yusif Ziya met with Nariman Narimanov and said that he did not want to serve the Soviet regime and could not adapt to this structure. Having received an official document from N. Narimanov to leave the borders of the Soviet Union, he left Azerbaijan. In the Basmacchi movement After leaving Azerbaijan, he went to Turkestan. Here, together with Anvar Pasha and Zaki Validi Togan, he joined the Basmachi movement fighting against the Bolsheviks. On May 18, 1923, he was seriously wounded in one of the battles with the Red Army. He drowned while trying to cross the Amudarya river together with his comrades-in-arms. Family His father Akhund Mustafa Talibzadeh was the deputy of Transcaucasia sheikhulislam. His brother Abdulla Shaikg was an honored artist, poet, and writer of the Azerbaijan SSR. Literary works "Tahsili-Qawaid" (1902) "Tahsili-Niswan" (1902) "Hadiyyayi-nisvan" (1903) "Biography of Mr. Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, famous for his wealth and generosity" (1903) "Sharia teacher" (1903, 1908, 1909) "Education of Sharia" (1904) "The Truth of Islam" (1905) "History of Islam" (Volume One, 1907) "Brief History of Islam" (Part Two, 1912) References 1877 births 1923 deaths Musavat politicians Azerbaijani politicians Azerbaijani educators Azerbaijani military personnel Pan-Turkists People of World War I