Lavrenty Kartvelishvili

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Lavrenty Kartvelishvili
ლავრენტი ქართველიშვილი
L I Lavrentiev Kartvelishvili.jpg
First Secretary of the
Communist Party of Georgia
In office
11 September 1931 – 14 November 1931
Preceded bySamson Mamulia
Succeeded byLavrentiy Beria
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Georgian SSR
In office
June 1927 – 1929
Preceded byShalva Eliava
Succeeded byFilipp Makharadze
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR
In office
14 June 1927 – April 1928
Preceded byFilipp Makharadze
Succeeded byFilipp Makharadze
Personal details
Born23 April, 1890
Tiflis, Russian Empire
DiedSeptember 22, 1938(1938-09-22) (aged 48)
Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityGeorgian
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party (b) (1910–1937)

Lavrenty Kartvelishvili (Georgian: ლავრენტი იოსების ძე ქართველიშვილი; Russian: Картвелишвили, Лаврентий Иосифович; 23 April, 1890– 22 August, 1938) was a Georgian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who served as the First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from 11 September to 14 November 1931.

Biography[]

A son of a peasant, he was born on 16 (28) April 1890 in the village of Yaneti in Tiflis province. Involved in the revolutionary movement since 1905, he was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party since 1910. In 1911 he studied at the Kiev Commercial Institute, which he graduated in 1914.

During the October Revolution he was in Kiev and became one of the organizers of the struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine. He was chairman of the regional committee of the RSDLP in Kiev, member of the revolutionary and underground district and city committee of the CP in Odessa. In 1919–1920, he was first secretary and then head of the organizational department of the CP District Committee in Odessa.[1]

He was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik Party) of Georgia in 1923–1928, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR in 1927–1928, and chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Georgian SSR in 1927–1929. From 11 September to 14 November 1931, he was First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party.

After being replaced in Georgia by his political adversary Lavrentiy Beria, he became between 1931 and 1933 First secretary of the National Committee of the All-Union Communist Party in Western Siberia, and between 1933 and 1936 in the Far East. From 28 December 1936 to 14 July 1937, he was First Secretary of the District Committee of the CPSU in the Crimea.[1]

On 29 June 1937, he was arrested by the NKVD at the request of Pavel Postyshev, accused of espionage for Germany, Japan, Great Britain and other foreign powers, participation in a conspiracy to overthrow Soviet power and the murder of Stalin, Yezhov and other party and state leaders. Sentenced to death by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR, he was executed in Kommunarka on 22 August 1938.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Картвелишвили Лаврентий Иосифович (БСЭ, цитаты)". oval.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 4 August 2021.

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