Lavrentiy Tsanava
Lavrentiy Tsanava | |
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Minister of State Security of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
In office 15 March 1946 – 29 October 1951 | |
Preceded by | Formerly People's Commissar of State Security |
Succeeded by | |
People's Commissar of State Security of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
In office 7 May 1943 – 15 March 1946 | |
Preceded by | Position restored |
Succeeded by | Renamed Minister of State Security |
People's Commissar of State Security of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
In office 26 February 1941 – 31 July 1941 | |
Preceded by | Established |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
In office 17 December 1938 – 26 February 1941 | |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by | Alexander Matveyev |
Personal details | |
Born | Lavrentiy Fomich Janjghava 9 August 1900 Nakhunavo, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 12 October 1955 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 55)
Nationality | Soviet |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava (Russian: Лаврентий Фомич Цанава; Georgian: ლავრენტი ცანავა; born Lavrentiy Janjghava Russian: Лаврентий Джанджгава; Georgian: ლავრენტი ჯანჯღავა, ; 9 August 1900 – 12 October 1955) was a Soviet politician and lieutenant general who served as the head of the Committee for State Security of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (NKVD) from 1941 until 1951. A close confidant of Lavrentiy Beria, and likewise an ethnic Mingrelian, he was arrested after the death of Joseph Stalin and died in prison awaiting a trial.
Bibliography[]
- Knight, Amy W. (1993), Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-01093-5
- Rayfield, Donald (2012), Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia, London: Reaktion Books, ISBN 978-1-78-023030-6
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- People from Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
- People from Kutais Governorate
- Mingrelians
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- Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- People's Commissars for Internal Affairs of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Ministers of State Security of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1938–1946)
- Commissars 3rd Class of State Security
- Directors of intelligence agencies
- Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic people
- People of World War II from Georgia (country)
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- Prisoners who died in Soviet detention
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