Tagi Ismailov
Red Battalion commander
Tagi Meshadi Mahmoud oglu Ismailov (Azerbaijani: Tağı Məşədi Mahmud oğlu İsmayılov; 1887 – 1958) – liberalist, partisan, one of the commanders of “Red Battalion”.
Biography
Tagi Ismailov was born in Sherur region Chomakhtur village of Nakhchivan, in 1887. His father, Meshadi Mahmoud, having education of foremost teachers of that period, known as “zagranichniy” (it means neat and modern in Russian) Mahmoud among people, for his modern clothes and thoughts, sent younger Tagi not to molla school but Russian-Tatar (Turk) school and he studied there.
Brave commander
The fighter for the liberty of Azerbaijan, was exiled to Northern Caucasus for his brave opinions from his first youth. There, he was charged to “desyatnik”, assistant engineer in Armavi railway construction. (Given photo in the page belongs to that period.)
He participated in the construction of Nakhchivan-Irevan railway, in 1902. He was the founder of “Shahtakhti labourer, peasant and soldier soviet” (1917) and the organizer of the fighting groups against Dashnaks raiding to Sherur region in 1918–1919. He had propagandized among the soldiers, while working on the construction of Shahtakhti-Maku-Bayazid railway, which was aimed to build for transporting Russian armed forces and machines. He had fought among the volunteer fighters group consisting of fellow villagers in the Turkish military units which repelled the Armenian bandits out of Sherur's villages.
He was awarded with the weapon called “Turkish Caliber” and the silver dagger decorated with gems, for his bravery in performing the last impact against Dashnak army below Khok (Xok in native) village.
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