[2] He graduated from the Shusha Real School, then studied at the faculty of economics of the Kiev Commercial Institute from 1913 to 1917.
[2] He was elected a member of the Baku underground committee of the Russian Communist Party, but was arrested and expelled from Azerbaijan in the summer of 1919.
[3] Although the Bolsheviks had initially agreed to grant immunity to the former political and military leadership of Armenia, Nurijanyan and his allies were eager to take revenge for the violent suppression of the May Uprising and destroy the remnants of the "bourgeois, nationalist regime" of the ARF.
[4] He was one of the chief perpetrators of the forced exile and repression of numerous political and military figures of the First Republic of Armenia in January 1921.
A sick young student operating under the influence of his constantly agitated brain, a total sadist and degenerate.
"[1] The repressions that Nurijanyan conducted were one of the causes of the February Uprising of 1921, when Soviet power in Armenia was briefly overthrown by an ARF-led rebellion.