Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava (russian: link=no, Лаврентий Фомич Цанава; ka, ლავრენტი ცანავა; born Lavrentiy Janjghava russian: link=no, Лаврентий Джанджгава; ka, ლავრენტი ჯანჯღავა, ; 9 August 1900 – 12 October 1955) was a Soviet politician and
lieutenant general
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who served as the head of the
(NKVD) from 1941 until 1951. A close confidant of
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; rus, Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия, Lavréntiy Pávlovich Bériya, p=ˈbʲerʲiə; ka, ლავრენტი ბერია, tr, ; – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolsheviks ...
, and likewise an ethnic
Mingrelian Mingrelian may refer to:
*the Mingrelians
*the Mingrelian language
Mingrelian or Megrelian (, ) is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia (regions of Mingrelia and Abkhazia), primarily by the Mingrelians. The language was also called kol ...
, he was arrested after the death of
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...
and died in prison awaiting a trial.
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1900 births
1955 deaths
People from Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
People from Kutais Governorate
Mingrelians
Bolsheviks
First convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
People's Commissars for Internal Affairs of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ministers of State Security of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1938–1946)
Commissars 3rd Class of State Security
Directors of intelligence agencies
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic people
People of World War II from Georgia (country)
Soviet Georgian generals
Soviet Georgian NKVD officials
Prisoners who died in Soviet detention
Soviet people who died in prison custody
K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University alumni