Nikolai Gikalo

Nikolay Gikalo
Nikolay Gikalo
First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
	In office; 1929–1930
First Secretary of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
	In office; 1932–1937
Personal details
Born	March 8, 1897; Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	April 25, 1938 (aged 41); Moscow, USSR
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Nikolay Fyodorovich Gikalo (Template:Lang-ru; born March 8, 1897, Odessa, Kherson Governorate – April 25, 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet revolutionary and statesman.

He was born in Odessa into a Ukrainian peasant family. From 1915 he served in the Russian Imperial Army, in 1917 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). He commanded the Red Army in the fight against the White Army in the Northern Caucasus. He was first secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from April 1929 to June 11, 1929, first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan from 1929 to August 1930, first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from January 18, 1932 to March 18, 1937. During the Great Purge, Gikalo was arrested, accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on April 25, 1938. He was exonerated posthumously in 1955.^[1]

A city in Chechnya is named after him.

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v t e Leaders of Azerbaijan since 1918
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	Heads of Parliament (1918-1920) Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh Alimardan Topchubashov
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1991)	First secretaries of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920-1991) Mirza Davud Huseynov (1920) Viktor Naneyshvily (1920) Elena Stasova (1920) Vladimir Dumbadze (1920) Grigory Kaminsky (1920–1921) Sergei Kirov (1921–1925) Ruhulla Akhundov (1925–1926) Levon Mirzoyan (1926–1929) Nikolai Gikalo (1929–1930) Vladimir Polonsky (1930–1933) Ruben Rubenov (1933) Mir Jafar Baghirov (1933–1953) Mir Teymur Yagubov (1953–1954) Imam Mustafayev (1954–1959) Vali Akhundov (1959–1969) Heydar Aliyev (1969–1982) Kamran Baghirov (1982–1988) Abdurrahman Vazirov (1988–1990) Ayaz Mutallibov (1990–1991)
Republic of Azerbaijan (1991-present)	Presidents of Azerbaijan Republic (1991-) Ayaz Mutallibov Yagub Mammadov^a Ayaz Mutallibov Isa Gambar^a Abulfaz Elchibey Heydar Aliyev Ilham Aliyev
(a) Denotes acting

v t e Leaders of Uzbekistan
Uzbek SSR	Vladimir Ivanov Kuprian Kirkizh Nikolai Gikalo Isaak Zelensky Akmal Ikramov Pyotr Yakovlev* Usman Yusupov Sirodzh Nurutdinov Amin Niyazov Nuritdin Mukhitdinov Sobir Kamolov Sharof Rashidov Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev Rafiq Nishonov Islam Karimov
Uzbekistan	Islam Karimov Nigmatilla Yuldashev* Shavkat Mirziyoyev
* denotes acting

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