Karim Abdraufovich Khakimov (Tatar: Кәрим Габдрәүф улы Хәкимов; 28 December 1890 – 10 January 1938) was a Tatar revolutionary who became a diplomat for the Soviet Union. He was one of the first plenipotentiary representatives of Soviet Russia in the Arab world and made a significant contribution to the establishment of good relations between the newly established Soviet Republic and the Arab-Persian world, especially within the recently unified Saudi Arabia.
Khakimov joined the Russian Communist Party in April 1918 in Samara.[1] He was executed in January 1938 during the Great Purge after being arrested on suspicion of subversive activity.
He was the subject of a biographic documentary, Russian Lawrence of Arabia: Life and death of Karim Khakimov 1892-1938 made by Radik Kudoyarov in 2010.[2]
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- ^ Naganawa, Norihiro (2015). An Imperial Pathway: Karim Khakimov in the Southern Urals, Turkestan, and Iran (1919-1921). Hokkaido: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University.
- ^ "Russian Lawrence of Arabia: Life and death of Karim Khakimov 1892-1938". Spla. South Planet. Retrieved 31 January 2022.