The 26 Commissars Memorial was a Soviet-era monument located in Baku, Azerbaijan, that paid tribute to the 26 Baku Commissars from the Baku commune. The commune was overthrown in 1918 and the commissars later executed near Krasnovodsk (now Türkmenbaşy). The monument was designed by Alesker Huseynov, who went on to become a prominent politician in Azerbaijan. The remains of the Commissars were buried at the site of the memorial, during the exhumation only 21 bodies were discovered.
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