Djelal ed-Din Korkmasov

Djelal ed-Din Aselder oğlu Korkmasov was a Dagestani revolutionary and Soviet politician who served as Chairman of the Dagestan Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in 1920 and as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1921 to 1931. Despite originally being a Menshevik or anarchist, he led the Bolsheviks to victory over various anti-communist groups in the Russian Civil War, and he is sometimes described as the founder of Dagestan.