Dikman Haim Aronovich (1891)

Dikman (Dickmann) Haim (Chaim) Aronovich (born 1891 – date and place of death uncertain) - prominent Bolshevik underground activist in Baku, later a senior manager and public official.

Haim Dikman began working in 1907 in Baku, Azerbaijan, serving as a clerk in an oil depot and offering private tuition. From 1915 to 1917, he was the clerk of the military-sanitary administration; in 1917–18 he served as deputy chairman of the food supply administration. In 1919, he engaged in clandestine activities for the Baku Bolsheviks—carrying out various party assignments, hosting secret meetings in his flat attended by N. I. Solovyov, L. Baltin, Mirzayan, Spiridonov, and others.

Following the establishment of Soviet rule in Azerbaijan in May 1920,  Dikman helped to found the People’s Commissariat for the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection. He was appointed head of both naval and economic inspection departments, adviser to the Inspection Board, and chaired a council of central inspectors. A member of the All‑Union Communist Party from 1920, he held leadership positions across the Azerbaijani oil industry, the People’s Commissariat of Health, and the Commissariat of Heavy and Light Industry. He also served as head of the office at Azneft, deputy director of the Kavminvody resort administration, and deputy director of the Oil Research Institute.

Between 1933 and 1937, Dikman was deputy head of the regional Directorate for Domestic Trade and chaired the regional consumer co‑operative. During 1920–37, he was repeatedly elected to senior party and Soviet roles. Arrested without justification in December 1937, he was exonerated by a military tribunal of the North Caucasus Military District in August 1940. When the Second World War broke out, he served as an inspector in that military district, and in February 1942 was assigned by the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the military trade organisation “Voentorg”. Between 1942 and 1951, he was in charge of Voentorg operations in Nalchik, Chimkent, Semipalatinsk, and later headed its Kaliningrad division. In 1951 he retired on grounds of disability (Category II). After finally ceasing full-time work in 1953, he remained active in public affairs and sat on the preliminary personnel review commission of his local Communist Party committee. He received the medals For Victory over Germany and For Labour Valour, and held the status of a personal pensioner.