Sergo Goglidze
Sergo Goglidze სერგო გოგლიძე | |
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| People‘s Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Georgian SSR | |
| In office 1937–1941 | |
| People‘s Commissar for Internal Affairs of the Transcaucasian SFSR | |
| In office 1934–1936 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1901 Kutaisi, Georgia, Russian Empire |
| Died | 23 December 1953 Moscow, USSR |
| Awards | Order of Lenin (twice) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  USSR |
| Branch/service | OGPU / NKVD |
| Years of service | 1921–1953 |
| Rank |  Colonel General |
| Unit | GPU-NKVD border troops |
| Commands | NKVD Georgian SSR NKVD Transcaucasian SFSR NKVD Soviet Far East |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Sergo Arseni Goglidze (Russian: Сергей (Серго) Арсеньевич Гоглидзе, Georgian: სერგო არსენის ძე გოგლიძე; 1901 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet security officer, NKVD official and Colonel General of State Security.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in Korta, a village near Kutaisi, Serghei (Sergo) Arsenievici (Arsentievici) Goglidze joined the Cheka in 1921. He served with GPU-NKVD border troops, rising through the ranks. In 1934 he was appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Transcaucasian SFSR, and, from 1937, of the Georgian SSR. Goglidze was a close associate and friend of Lavrentiy Beria, who promoted him to high-level positions.
In 1941, he was appointed Plenipotentiary of the People's Commissar's Council in Moldavia (Romanian territory, occupied by the Soviet Union following the ultimatum of June 26, 1940, itself a direct consequence of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact), and was put in charge of a major deportation.[2] 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.
In 1953, after the death of Stalin and downfall of Beria, he was arrested and shot (in Moscow, on 23 December 1953) together with a group of other NKVD officers close to Beria.
Notes and links
[edit]- ^ Stalin and His Hangmen. Donald Rayfield, Random House. 18 December 2007. ISBN 9780307431837. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
- ^ "ПОЛИТ.РУ: Не по своей воле... История и география принудительных миграций в СССР". Archived from the original on 2010-05-14. Retrieved 2011-11-03. Павел Полян. Не по своей воле.
- Н. В. Петров, К. В. Скоркин: Гоглидзе, 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.)
- 1901 births
- 1953 deaths
- Cheka officers
- NKVD officers
- People from Kutais Governorate
- Candidates of the Central Committee of the 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- Candidates of the Central Committee of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 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
- Soviet colonel generals
- Soviet Georgian NKVD officials
- Soviet Georgian generals
- Commissars 2nd Class of State Security
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
- People from Georgia (country) executed by the Soviet Union
- People of World War II from Georgia (country)
- People executed for treason against the Soviet Union
- People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm
- Interior ministers of Georgia