Sergo Goglidze

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Sergo Goglidze
სერგო გოგლიძე
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
Born1901
Transcaucasian SFSR
NKVD Soviet Far East
Battles/warsWorld 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

Born in Korta, a village near

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

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

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.

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