Sergo Goglidze

Sergo Goglidze
სერგო გოგლიძე
Born 1901
Kutaisi, Georgia, Russian Empire
Died 23 December 1953
Moscow, USSR
Allegiance Soviet Union USSR
Service/branch OGPU / NKVD
Years of service 1921–1953
Rank Colonel General
Unit GPU-NKVD border troops
Commands held NKVD Georgian SSR
NKVD Transcaucasian SFSR
NKVD Soviet Far East
Battles/wars World War II
Awards

Other work Deputy Minister of State Security

Sergo Goglidze (1901 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet NKVD official of Georgian ethnicity.[1]

Biography

Born in Korta, a village near Kutaisi, Serghei (Sergo) Arsenievici (Artenievici) 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 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.

  1. ↑ "Stalin and His Hangmen". Donald Rayfield, Random House. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-14. Retrieved 2011-11-03. Павел Полян. Не по своей воле.



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