Yakov Zevin

[1] Zevin was born in Krasnapolle, a town in nowadays Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus.

[2] He became a member of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904 and he was arrested several times for conducting revolutionary activities.

He was a delegate in the 6th (Prague) conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1912, where he represented the group of Mensheviks.

Zevin became one of the 26 Baku Commissars (he was the Commissar of Labor) of the Soviet Commune that was established in the city after the October Revolution.

When the Commune was toppled by the Centro Caspian Dictatorship, a British-backed coalition of Dashnaks, SRs and Mensheviks, Zevin and his comrades were captured by British troops and executed by a firing squad between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of Transcaucasian Railroad on September 20, 1918.