Chingiz Ildyrym Chingiz Sultanov Ildyrym oglu ( ) ( 1890 – 1937 ) better known as Chingiz Ildyrym , was a Bolshevik revolutionary , innovator and the first People ' s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of Azerbaijan after the Sovietization of Azerbaijan . Early life . Ildyrym was born to the family of a landowner in Qubadli settlement of Zangezur uyezd of Elisabethpol Governorate ( present day Azerbaijan ) on July 10 , 1890 . He studied at a local school established by his father , continued his secondary education in Shusha and then Vladikavkaz completing it in 1909 . He was then admitted to Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University to study mount - mining . While a student , he lost his father and had to work around the clock to be able to support himself . In 1916 , he graduated from the university with a specialty in Metallurgy Engineering and got a job at " Ayvaz " plant . Involved in public protests after Russia ' s February Revolution , he took a part in the gathering to meet Vladimir Lenin returning from Finland at Saint Peterburg railway station on April 3 , 1917 . Impressed by his speech , Ildyrym decided to commit himself to the communist movement . Political career . Having joined the ranks of the Bolsheviks , Ildyrym proposed to create Muslim Labor Red Army , then called " Ildyrymmiye " , which would defend the Bolshevik governments in regions of Azerbaijan . The first Ildyrymmiye was established in June 1918 in Petrograd and Simal . The same year , Ildyrymmiye army of 2 , 000 Azerbaijanis fought against the White Army in Astrakhan during the Russian Civil War but due to involvement of Armenian Dashnak s siding with Bolsheviks in massacres of Azerbaijanis during March Days of 1918 , Bolsheviks lost their support among Azerbaijanis and the army soon dissolved . In 1919 , he returned to Shusha and continued propagating communism . During the existence of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic , Ildyrym served as Deputy Commander of Azerbaijani Navy and chief of the harbor under Musavat ' s leadership although he was a Bolshevik . In 1919 , he established a special navy expedition to handle transportation of oil to Russia . On April 27 , when the 11th Red Army was invading Baku , Ildyrym played an important role in overthrowing the ADR government . With a number of soldiers , he entered Baku Navy school and disarmed the cadets . Later in the day , he captured positions in Bailov , completely taking over the shipyard . All prisoners held in Bailov prison were let free , among them well known revolutionaries Rahim Huseynov , Dadash Bunyadzade and Gasim Ismayilov . Once the center of Baku was taken , the Bolsheviks led by Ildyrym surrounded the National Assembly of Azerbaijan with artillery and presented an ultimatum to Musavat government . On early morning hours of April 28 , 1920 , after debates in the parliament , the government agreed to terms of the Bolsheviks and ADR ceased to exit . With the establishment of Communist regime in Azerbaijan , Chingiz Ildyrym was appointed the first People ' s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs of Azerbaijan . Later years . In 1924 , Ildyrym worked as Commissar of Public Roads and presented innovative ideas for road construction in Azerbaijan later applied elsewhere in USSR . He built the first electrified railway in the USSR on the Baku - Sabunchi route . The construction of the Baku - Julfa railway , stretching 407 km in 1924 , was his best and most well known project . In 1924 - 1928 , Ildyrym worked as Deputy Chairman of Supreme Agricultural Council . During his term in the entity , he started electrification policies in Azerbaijan . As a result , 19 electric stations ( 1500 hp ) were built in 1924 - 1927 . This stimulated increase in manufacturing abilities of Azerbaijan and in 1927 , steel manufacturing department was established at Lieutenant Schmidt ( presently Sattarkhan ) Plant . In 1925 , 65 % of the drilling equipment for Azerbaijani oil fields were switched to electric power . In 1929 , Ildyrym was appointed project manager for construction of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and from 1934 , he was managing construction of one of centers of Soviet metallurgy , Krivoy Rog . During the time of construction boom , Ildyrym was sent to the United States to arrange shipments of necessary materials for construction of the plant in Magnitogorsk . Arrest and execution . On July 7 , 1937 , Ildyrym was arrested by NKVD and charged with an alleged anti - revolutionary plot . He was held prisoner in Dnepropetrovsk , Baku and Moscow . In Moscow , he was first jailed in high security Lefortovo Prison and then moved to a more severe location - Sukhanovka , infamous for political prisoners . He was sentenced to death by NKVD and his family was notified he had been sentenced to 10 years without permission to communicate with the outside world . He was executed by firing squad in the summer of 1937 .