Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Javad Irzabey oglu Malik-Yeganov (1878, near Hadrut 1942, Karelia) was an Azerbaijani politician and Governor-General of Lankaran during Azerbaijan's independence in 1918 1920. Malik-Yeganov was born in the village of Tugh, situated in what is now Hadrut province of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. After being homeschooled, he arrived in Baku in 1903 to work in the oil fields. He joined the Muslim Social Democratic Party and within several years became known as an outspeaking socialist among Baku's oil workers.