Sergo Arseni Goglidze ( Georgian: სერგო არსენის ძე გოგლიძე, Russian: Сергей (Серго) Арсеньевич Гоглидзе; 1901 – 23 December 1953) was a

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security officer,

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official and Colonel General of State Security.

Biography

Born in Korta, a village near

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, Serghei (Sergo) Arsenievici (Arsentievici) Goglidze joined the

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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

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. 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

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( Romanian territory, occupied by the

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following the

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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

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. Павел Полян. Не по своей воле. In July 1941, after the start of the war, he was moved to

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, 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

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. In 1953, after the death of Stalin and downfall of Beria, he was arrested and shot (in

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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.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Goglidze, Sergo 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 Ministers of internal affairs of Georgia