Gevork Alikhanyan

Gevork Alikhanyan
Head of the Cadre Department of the Executive Committee of Communist International
In office 1935–1937
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia
In office December 31, 1920–April 1921
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	Askanaz Mravyan
Personal details
Born	Gevork Sarkisovich Alikhanyan 1897 Tiflis, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia)
Died	February 13, 1938 (aged 40-41) Kommunarka Shooting Ground, Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Political party	Communist Party of Armenia
Children	Yelena Bonner

Gevork Sarkisovich Alikhanyan (Armenian: Գևորգ Սարկիսովիչ Ալիխանյան) (1897–1938), also known in Russian as Georgy Alikhanov (Russian: Георгий Алиханов), was a Soviet Armenian politician and statesman. Alikhanyan is best known for being the founding First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from 1920 to 1921. He was also a high-ranking member of Comintern before his arrest and execution during the Great Purge.