Varlam Avanesov

Varlam Aleksandrovich Avanesov (Russian: Варлаам Александрович Аванесов; born Suren Karpovich Martirosyan, Russian: Сурен Карпович Мартиросян;[1] 1884 – March 16, 1930) was an Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet communist politician.

Avanesov was born in 1884 to a peasant Armenian family in the historically Armenian Kars Oblast of the Russian Empire (in present-day Turkey).

[2] Initially he sided with the Mensheviks, moving to Bolshevik faction in 1914.

In March 1917, he was a member of the Bolshevik faction on the Moscow Soviet, and later a member of the Presidium of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee of the soviets.

In 1920–1924, Deputy People's Commissar of Rabkrin (the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection), and a member of the Collegium of the Cheka, and later Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Trade.