Avetis Sultan-Zade
Avetis Sultanovich Sultan-Zade (born Avetis Mikaelian; Russian: Аветис Султанович Султан-Заде; Persian: آوتيس سلطانزاده; Armenian: Ավետիս Սուլթան Զադե; 1889 – 16 July 1938) was an Iranian-born ethnic Armenian communist revolutionary and economist, best remembered as one of the founders of the Communist Party of Iran. Sultan-Zade was a delegate to the Second World Congress of the Communist International in 1920 and was for a time one of the leading figures of the Marxist revolutionary movement in the so-called "East." Following his demotion from the leadership of the Iranian Communist Party and the Comintern in 1923, Sultan-Zada lived in the Soviet Union where he worked as a government functionary in the banking industry.