Rza Valibeyov

Rza Khalil oghlu Valibeyov (Rza Xəlil oğlu Vəlibəyov, 1903–1974) was an Azerbaijani Soviet state-party figure, editor-in-chief of Sovet Ermenistani newspaper.

Biography
Rza Valibeyov was born in 1903 in the village of Akarak. After studying at the Transcaucasia Communist University in 1924–1928, he worked as the secretary of the Basarkechar District Party Committee, and then for a short time as the editor of Gyzyl Shafaq.

After Rza Valibeyov worked as a department head in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, People's Commissar of Justice of the Armenian SSR, Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, in 1947–1949, he again worked as the editor of the Sovet Ermenistani newspaper, and in 1949–1962, he worked as the First Deputy Minister of Education of the Armenian SSR, and was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Armenian SSR.

Rza Valibeyov is the only Azerbaijani who was buried in the Alley of Honor (Pantheon) in Yerevan.