1 The Funeral of AF Myasnikova SG Mogilevsky GA Atarbekov and Other Victims of the Plane Crash in Tiflis 2 Military Parade in Tiflis on the Occasion of the Beginning of the Work of the 3rd Session of the USSR Central Executive Committee of the 2nd Convocation

1st plot. The funeral of A.F. Myasnikov, S.G. Mogilevsky, G.A. Atarbekov and other victims of the plane crash in Tiflis. On March 22, 1925 in Tiflis near the Didube hippodrome there was a plane crash of the Junkers-13 passenger plane, which took off from the Tiflis airfield in Sukhumi. On board the plane were: 1st Secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Committee of the RCP (b), deputy. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR A.F. Myasnikov (Myasnikyan), Deputy. Chairman of the Transcaucasian Cheka S.G. Mogilevsky, deputy. People's Commissar of the RCI in the ZSFSR G. A. Atarbekov (Atarbekyan). As a result of engine failure, the plane caught fire and fell. All those present on board the Junkers were killed, incl. German pilot Spire and mechanic A. Sagaradze. On March 25, the funeral of the victims was held in Tiflis in the presence of members of the government commission. Tiflis, March 24-25. General views of Plekhanov Avenue (former Golovinsky Avenue, now Rustaveli Avenue), the building of the military cathedral of Alexander Nevsky and the funeral procession that stretches along the avenue. The troops are stationed along the avenue and adjacent streets. Columns of troops are marching along the avenue. The funeral procession with the coffins of the dead moves to the place of burial and the meeting. A column of workers with flags and banners is marching along [Gunibskaya] square. Participants of the mourning event are holding a wreath made of metal structures of the plane of the crashed Junkers. Columns of troops, in front of which is a military brass band, pass along the avenue. General view of the portraits of the victims, which are at the coffins. Honor guard at the coffin of each of the victims. Columns of pioneers, with bent banners, march among the funeral procession. Participants in the mourning procession carry wreaths, flags and other mourning symbols. Members of the government commission and leaders of Transcaucasia are on guard of honor at the coffins with the bodies of the dead; among them: 1st secretary of the Transcaucasian RCP (b) G.K. Ordzhonikidze, 1st secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party S.M. Kirov, Chairman of the SNK of the Georgian SSR Z.Sh. Eliava, Chairman of the SNK ZSFSR I.D. Orakhelashvili, the head of the secret operational unit, the plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU for the Transcaucasus L.P. Beria and others (among them there may be M.I.Kakhiani, Vano Sturua, Lado Dumbadze), as well as the German Consul General Vesendonk, who stands at the coffin with the body of the deceased pilot of the Spire. Columns of Red Army soldiers are marching across the square. Those present at the mourning ceremony - G.K. Ordzhonikidze, Z.Sh. Eliava, Chairman of the Transcaucasian CEC S. Hambartsumyan, I.D. Orakhelashvili, commander of the Caucasian Red Banner Army A.I. Kork, and others (among them may be the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Azerbaijan SSR Gazanfar Mahmud oglu Musabekov, the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Armenian SSR S. Lukashin - Sarkis Lusengenovich Srapionyan) are watching the passing columns. General view of the square filled with people with wreaths. Participants in the funeral procession are carrying coffins with the bodies of the dead. Speech by speakers at the meeting. A military band is at the head of a column of troops and pioneers. 2nd plot. Military parade in Tiflis on the occasion of the beginning of the work of the 3rd session of the USSR Central Executive Committee of the 2nd convocation. The 3rd session of the USSR Central Executive Committee of the 2nd convocation was the first visiting session, which took place not in Moscow, but in Tiflis from March 3rd to 7th, 1925. Tiflis, March 3-7, 1925 Members of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, including the leaders of the party and government of the USSR and the Union republics, as well as prominent military leaders bypass the guard of honor during the parade in Tiflis, are present at the parade. Among those present: Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR from the RSFSR M.I. Kalinin, G.K. Ordzhonikidze, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, member of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR G.V. Chicherin, 1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan S.M. Kirov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR A. Rykov, deputy. Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR N.A. Skrypnik, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Ukrainian SSR G.I. Petrovsky, secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR A.S. Yenukidze, deputy. Commander of the North Caucasus Military District S.M. Budyonny, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Georgian SSR Z.Sh. Eliava, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR M.G. Tskhakaya (among those present there may be N.A. Semashko, H.G. Rakovsky, N.P. Samursky, etc.). Cavalry units and columns of Red Army soldiers pass along Plekhanov Avenue (former Golovinsky Avenue, now Rustaveli Avenue). Views of the Church of St. George (Kashveti) in Tiflis and a fragment of the military cathedral of Alexander Nevsky.

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