Davtyan Yakov Khristoforovich

Genus. in 1888 in the village. Akulis of the former Erivan province. in the family of a small merchant. Member VKPB since 1905, higher education. In 1905 he joined the RSDLP. He was among the founders of the Foreign Department (INO) of the Cheka. In 1919, member of the Russian Red Cross mission in France. In 1920-21 1st Secretary of the Embassy in Estonia. In 1921-22. Member of the Board of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, Head. department of the Baltic countries. In 1922 Plenipotentiary Representative in Lithuania. In 1922-24. Advisor to the plenipotentiary mission in China, in 1924 plenipotentiary representative to the Tuvan Republic. In 1925-27. Advisor to the Embassy in France. In 1927-30. Plenipotentiary Representative in Iran, 1932-34. - in Greece, in 1934 - in Poland. In 1937 he was recalled to Moscow and arrested on charges of belonging to an “anti-Soviet terrorist organization” (Article 58-1 “a”, 58-8, 58-11 of the Criminal Code). On July 28, 1938, he was convicted by the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to military service. Shot on the same day in Moscow. Rehabilitated 04/25/1957