Jafar Kavian or Jafar Mammadzadeh (1895, Tabriz – 1975, Baku) was a fedai, politician, major general, Minister of People's Army of the Azerbaijan People's Government established in Tabriz , and a member of the National Assembly of the Azerbaijan National Government. He was a member of the Iranian Communist Party, the Central Committee of the Tudeh Party , and the organizing committee of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party .