Ali bey Zizikski, one of the defenders of Guba district, was an active participant of the national independence movement of Azerbaijan and a member of the parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. After the February Revolution, Captain A. Zizikski was appointed commissioner of Guba district by the Special Transcaucasian Committee. After the October 1917 coup, Ali Bey tried to prevent the area from falling under the control of the Baku Soviet. During the March 1918 genocide, Ziziksky joined the regiments of Najmeddin Gotsinsky, who came to the aid of Baku from Dagestan with his troops.
In April 1918, the Baku Soviet sent an army of Dashnak Armenians to Guba under the name of Bolsheviks. A few days later, these groups were pushed away from Guba by Muslim groups led by Ali bey Zizikski, Hamdulla Efendi Efendizadeh and others. Then, in early May, on the instructions of S. Shaumyan and G. Korganov, 3,000 Dashnak-Bolshevik forces led by Dashnak Hamazasp were sent to Guba. The national forces of the accident, led by Ziziksky, were forced to cross into Dagestan, unable to resist the overwhelming and well-armed enemy forces. Ziziksky, who organized the formation of new military units in the Caucasus with the help of the Islamic Army and the local population in Dagestan, organized a strong attack on the Dashnak-Bolshevik forces of Hamazasp and took part in the liberation of Guba. When the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established, most members of Ziziksky’s gang joined the newly formed National Army.
After the April occupation, Ali Bey Zizikski was persecuted by the Bolsheviks, arrested and subsequently executed.
