Akbar agha Sheykhulislamov was an Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani people

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 public figure and politician. He served in the First cabinet of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

First cabinet of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

First cabinet of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic governed Azerbaijan Democratic Republic between May 28, 1918 and June 17, 1918. It was formed after proclamation of independence of Azerbaijan on May 28, 1918 and was led by Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Fatali Khan Khoyski with the following...

 as its Minister of Agriculture and Labor

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Early life and career

Sheykhulislamov was born in Erivan in 1891. Having graduated from a gymnasium in Erivan, he got enrolled Petersburg State Transport University in 1912. Upon his return to Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

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, he worked as the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic

Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic

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. Sheykhulislamov was a member of Hummet party. He was one of the co-signers of Proclamation of Independence of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

After establishment of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was the first successful attempt to establish a democratic and secular republic in the Muslim world . The ADR was founded on May 28, 1918 after the collapse of the Russian Empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917 by Azerbaijani National Council in...

 on May 28, 1918 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Labor in Fatali Khan Khoyski

Fatali Khan Khoyski

Fatali Khan Khoyski Isgender oglu was an attorney, a member of the Second State Duma of the Russian Empire, Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Defense and, later the first Prime Minister of the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.-Early life:Khoyski was born on December 7, 1875 in...

's newly formed government and served in the National Assembly of Azerbaijan

National Assembly of Azerbaijan

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 until the Bolshevik invasion of Azerbaijan

Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan

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 on April 28, 1920, when he fled the country.

Sheykhulislamov died on March 2, 1961 in Paris

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, France

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 and was buried in Bobigny

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cemetery.