Lavrenty Beria
Soviet politician and NKVD police chief (1899-1953) Executed with 6 associates. Grace location remains unknown. Both Stalin (assassinated) and Beria expired in 1953. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия) 9 March 1899: Merkheuli, Russian Empire (Georgia or Abkhazia) 23 December 1953: Moscow, RSFSR Soviet Union). He was a Georgian-Bolshevik, Soviet politician.
Quick Facts First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Premier ...
Lavrenty Beria | |
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First Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union | |
In office 5 March 1953 – 26 June 1953 | |
Premier | Georgy Malenkov |
Preceded by | Vyacheslav Molotov |
Succeeded by | Lazar Kaganovich |
Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union | |
In office 5 March 1953 – 26 June 1953 | |
Preceded by | Sergei Kruglov |
Succeeded by | Sergei Kruglov |
In office 25 November 1938 – 29 December 1945 | |
First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party | |
In office 15 January 1934 – 31 August 1938 | |
In office 14 November 1931 – 18 October 1932 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (1899-03-29)29 March 1899 Merkheuli, Sukhum,Okrug, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire (Today : Georgia) |
Died | 23 December 1953(1953-12-23) (aged 54) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (Today : Russia) |
Nationality | Soviet, Georgian |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917-1953) |
Spouse(s) | Nina Gegechkori |
Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
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Military service | |
Nickname(s) | Stalin’s Himmler Our Himmler |
Rank | Marshal of the Soviet Union |
Battles/wars | Russian Revolution (1917-1923),Russian Civil War (1917-1923),Polish-Soviet War (1918-1921) World War II (1939-1945),Korean War (1950-1953) |
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Beria was born to a poor family in Georgia he joined the Bolshevik Party led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917 at age 18.
Beria was leader of the secret police of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin's regime from 1938-1945 (head of the NKVD) 1946-1953 (Head of the MVD). In 1953, Nikita Krushchev plotted to have Beria executed.