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M.Hajjinski headed the Consruction Division at the Baku Town Council. One of the
organizers of Hummet , the Muslim social-democratic organization in 1904, and
Neshr Maarif educational association in 1906, a member of Nijat Muslim educational
society and the Central Committee of the Muslim Charitable Association. As a mem-
ber of Mussavat Party, M.Hajjinski joined the Baku Voluntary Associations’ Council
established on March 5, 1917 and was then elected the Chairman to the Provisional
Committee at the Baku Muslim Voluntary Associations Council. Hajjinski was ac-
tively involved in the Congress of the Caucasus Muslims (April 1917, Baku) and the
Congress of Russia’s Muslims (May 1917, Moscow). He was elected a member of
Mussavat Party’s Central Committee at the Party’s first congress in October 1917.
Deputy Commissar of Commerce and Industry at the Transcaucasia Commissariat
established on November 15, 1917, Hajjinski was elected to the Russian Constituent
Assembly. As a member of the Trans-Caucasian Seim from Mussavat Party, Hajjinski
was holding the post of the Minister of Trade and Industry in the Government of the
Federal Democratic Republic of Transcaucasia. Meanwhile, he was a member of the
Azerbaijani National Council that adopted the Act on Azerbaijan’s Independence
on May 27, 1918. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the First and Second Cabinets
of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, he was in the meantime heading the
Ministry of Control until October 6, 1918, and the Ministry of Finance after Octo-
ber 6. As a member of Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, Hajjinski
was with the Mussavat group. He was included in the Azerbaijani delegation to the
Paris Peace Conference. The Minister of Internal Affairs as of December 24, 1919, and
the Minister of Industry, Trade and Food since February 20, 1920, Hajjinski was com-
missioned by the Parliament to form a new Cabinet of Ministers on March 30, 1920.
On April 22, 1920, however, he reported the legislature of the impossibility to form a
new Cabinet and of his resignation from Mussavat Party and accession to the Bolshevik
Party. Upon collapse of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan and establishment of
the Soviet regime, Hajjinski held a number of high-ranking positions at the Council of
National Economy (Sovnatkhoz) of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan and the
Trans-Caucasian State Planning Committee (Gosplan). Subject to political repression as
of the 1930’s, M.Hajjinski was arrested in Tbilisi on December 3, 1930 and charged with
the involvement in the activities of the so-called Azerbaijani National Center. Failing to
withstand torture and illtreatment, Hajjinski committed a suicide on February 9, 1931.
3Khasmammadov Alakbar-bey Hajjibaba oghlu (1870-1925), a recognized
state and public figure of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (1918-1920), a gradu-
ate of Moscow University, lawyer and legal expert by training and attorney at law by
occupation, he was the elder brother of another renowed public figure of the First
Republic, Khalil-bey Khasmammadov. A member of the Ganja Muslim Charitable As-
sociation and the Central Committee of Difai Party, A.Khasmammadov was chairing
the Ad Hoc Investigation Committee at the Government of the Democratic Republic of
Azerbaijan as of July 15, 1918. Since February 24, 1918 he was also the Chairman of the
Azerbaijani Judicial Chamber. In May 1920, A.Khasmammadov was employed by the
judicial authorities of the People’s Commissariat of Justice, the Soviet Socialist Republic
of Azerbaijan. On June 7, 1920, he was appointed the District People’s Judge in charge
for grave crimes. In 1925, A.Khasmammadov was executed by the Soviet authorities.