Georgi Atarbekov

[1][circular reference] Atarbekov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1908 and studied at the Moscow University from 1910 to 1911, and was arrested for his political activities.

In 1919, he was appointed chairman of the North Caucasus Cheka and took part in fighting with the White Russian forces and the Muslim insurgents in the region.

He ordered the mass killing of hostages in Pyatigorsk on 1 November 1918, and boasted afterwards that he had personally stabbed General Nikolai Ruzsky to death.

[5] In July 1919, Atarbekov was removed from office and subsequently taken to Moscow under escort after the leader of the Astrakhan Bolsheviks, Mina Aristov had complained about his brutality.

In March 1925, together with Solomon Mogilevsky and Alexander Miasnikian, Atarbekov boarded a plane from Tiflis to meet Trotsky who was in convalescence in Sukhum.