[2][4] After February Revolution, he became an activist of Ittihad Party and was later appointed Commissar of South Caucasus Education Department 29 August 1917.

At the beginning of 1919, he visited Tiflis and personally conveyed the proposal of the Azerbaijani Government to transfer the Transcaucasian University to Baku.

As a result, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan sent a message to Tiflis about the opening of the Baku State University instead.

When the fifth government under Nasib Yusifbeyli was formed on December 22, 1919, he was appointed Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of ADR.

In 1941, he was arrested as a result of Soviet repressions, being accused of working for Iranian interests and sent to a prison camp in Arkhangelsk Oblast where he died on February 3, 1944.

[2][4] Shahtakhtinski was married to his maternal cousin Sakina and had four daughters[2] called Saida, Aliya, Masma and Leyla.