Ullubiy Daniyalovich Buynaksky

Ullubiy Daniyalovich Buynaksky – a revolutionary figure of Dagestan in the early 20th century. He was born into the family of a hereditary nobleman and a military officer. Buynaksky studied at the Stavropol Gymnasium and at the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, but was expelled from the university for membership in the RSDLP.

After the February Revolution, Buynaksky carried out party work in Moscow. In November 1917 he headed the military-revolutionary committee in Petrovsk-Port (now Makhachkala). He subsequently served as a member of the Regional Military-Revolutionary Committee and then of the Regional Executive Committee of the Soviets, where he was in charge of the legal department. At the end of July 1918 he was sent to Moscow, from where he returned in January 1919.

In February 1919 a congress of Dagestani communists was held in the village of Kumtorkala, at which an underground regional committee of the RCP(b) and a military council were created. Buynaksky was elected chairman of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the RCP(b) and of the military council. In May 1919 he was arrested together with other members of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the Bolsheviks and taken to Petrovsk. After a trial held in July 1919, Buynaksky was executed on August 16, 1919. He was buried in a mass grave in Temir-Khan-Shura (now Buynaksk).