Defender of Guba district – Hamdulla Efendi Ismayil oglu Efendizadeh, one of the first members of the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, was born in 1888 in Galagah village of Devechi district of Guba region. One of the prominent intellectuals of his time, the public figure received his first education in a village mollakhana, then in a madrasah in Guba, and in 1906 graduated from a two-grade Russian school. He was fluent in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Russian. Hamdulla Efendi was one of the people who rendered special services in preventing the genocide committed by the Armenian-Bolshevik Dashnaks against the Azerbaijanis in Guba district in 1918. He fought with his troops in the struggle against the Armenians together with the Guba area commissioner Ali Bey Ziziksky. In those days, a group of 50 people, including the active Bolshevik A. Najafov, returned from Amirkhanli village of Davachi on horseback and fought with Hamdulla Efendi’s group. The Bolsheviks were defeated and retreated to Khachmaz. Hamdulla Efendi was also distinguished by his political views and participated in the socio-political life of the country after the establishment of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, was one of the active members of the “Ittihad” party. According to the “Law on the Establishment of the Azerbaijani Parliament-Prisoner” of the National Council of Azerbaijan (November 19, 1918), he was included in the Republican Parliament from Guba district and was a member of the “Ittihad” faction. The struggle against the Bolsheviks in 1920-1928 was led by well-known figures of the region, such as Hamdulla efendi and his brother Shamsaddin Efendi in Devechi district. About 12,000 local fighters are said to be in the armed groups led by them. After the congress of the Soviet government in Azerbaijan, Mr. Hamdulla was arrested on October 25, 1928 and repressed in 1928, exiled to Siberia, where he died.
