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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
Kutaisi, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died23 December 1953
Moscow, USSR
AwardsOrder of Lenin (twice)
Military service
AllegianceSoviet Union USSR
Branch/serviceOGPU / NKVD
Years of service1921–1953
Rank Colonel General
UnitGPU-NKVD border troops
CommandsNKVD Georgian SSR
NKVD 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

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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.

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  1. ^ Stalin and His Hangmen. Donald Rayfield, Random House. 18 December 2007. ISBN 9780307431837. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  2. ^ "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.