Dzhaparidze, along with Stepan Shaumian, Mashadi Azizbekov, Ivan Fioletov and other commissars tried to spread the communist ideology throughout the whole Caucasus.

Soon after the fall of the commune, on the night of September 20, he was executed by firing squad in a remote location between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma on the Trans-Caspian railway along with other Commissars.

Dzhaparidze was one of the main four commissars who gained a notable status in Soviet Union as a fallen hero of Russian Revolution.

Prokofy Dzhaparidze was born in Schardometi village of Racha, Kutais Governorate in the Russian Empire (present-day Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, Republic of Georgia) into the untitled petite branch of the House of Japaridze, then part of the Georgian nobility.

[2] He was educated at the Alexandrovsk Teachers Institute in Tbilisi, Dzhaparidze joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898.

He was one of the leaders of the December strike of the workers in Baku, also actively participated in the publishment of the Bolshevik journals and magazines Bakisnkie Rabochi, Gudok and Bakinski prolitari.

During this time, he was actively involved in March Events, as he tried to spread the communist ideology to Azerbaijan and the whole South Caucasus in general.