Sergo Arseni Goglidze (
Russian
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: Сергей (Серго) Арсеньевич Гоглидзе,
Georgian
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: სერგო არსენის ძე გოგლიძე; 1901 – 23 December 1953) was a
Soviet
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security officer,
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
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official and Colonel General of State Security.
Biography
Born in Korta, a village near
Kutaisi, Serghei (Sergo) Arsenievici (Arsentievici) Goglidze joined the
Cheka in 1921. He served with
GPU
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-NKVD border troops, rising through the ranks. In 1934 he was appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the
Transcaucasian SFSR
, conventional_long_name = Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
, common_name = Transcaucasian SFSR
, p1 = Armenian Soviet Socialist RepublicArmenian SSR
, flag_p1 = Flag of SSRA ...
, and, from 1937, of the
Georgian SSR
The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; ka, საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, tr; russian: Грузинская Советская Соц ...
. Goglidze was a close associate and friend 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 ...
, who promoted him to high-level positions.
In 1941, he was appointed Plenipotentiary of the People's Commissar's Council in
Moldavia
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(
Romanian territory, occupied by the
Soviet Union
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following the
ultimatum
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of June 26, 1940, itself a direct consequence of the
Ribbentrop-Molotov pact), and was put in charge of a major
deportation
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.
[ Павел Полян. Не по своей воле.] In July 1941, after the start of the war, he was moved to
Khabarovsk, working as a chief of the Soviet security apparatus in the Far East.
In 1951, he was moved to the headquarters of the
MGB in Moscow, serving as a Deputy Minister of State Security. Goglidze was in charge of the investigation of the
Doctors' Plot
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.
In 1953, after the death of Stalin and downfall of Beria, he was arrested and shot (in
Moscow
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, on 23 December 1953) together with a group of other NKVD officers close to Beria.
Notes and links
* Н. В. Петров, К. В. Скоркин
Сергей Арсеньевич'. ''Кто руководил НКВД 1934–1941'', Москва 1999. * http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_g/goglidze_sa.php (rus.)
* http://www.knowbysight.info/GGG/02069.asp (rus.)
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1901 births
1953 deaths
Cheka officers
NKVD officers
People from Kutais Governorate
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members
First convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
Second convocation members of the Soviet of the Union
Third convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
Communist Party of Georgia (Soviet Union) politicians
Generals from Georgia (country)
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Recipients of the Order of Lenin
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Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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People from Georgia (country) executed by the Soviet Union
People of World War II from Georgia (country)