Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (/ˈbɛriʌ/; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия, IPA: [lɐˈvrʲenʲtʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია...

Khrushchev, then-head of the Moscow branch of the Communist Party; Lavrentiy Beria, head of the NKVD; Georgy Malenkov, the chairman of the Presidium;...

Genrikh Yagoda from 1934 to 1936, Nikolai Yezhov from 1936 to 1938, Lavrentiy Beria from 1938 to 1946, and Sergei Kruglov in 1946. First established in...

Lavrentiy (Russian: Лаврентий) is a Russian masculine given name. Lavrentiy Beria, Soviet politician Lavrentiy Tsanava, Soviet politician Lavrenti (given...

where his rivals for succession to Stalin were Andrei Zhdanov and Lavrentiy Beria; Malenkov rose in stature after Zhdanov's death in 1948. Following...

confidants, Lavrentiy Beria, who was in charge of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, which included Georgia. During a visit to Beria in Tbilisi...

In February 1941 Kruglov was appointed First Deputy Commissar under Lavrentiy Beria. He retained that position, with a brief interruption, until December...

for disloyalty. On 22 August 1938, NKVD leader Lavrenty Beria was named as Yezhov's deputy. Beria had managed to survive the Great Purge and the "Yezhovshchina"...

MVD and MGB are merged into the MVD by Lavrentiy Beria. MVD – "Ministry of Internal Affairs" Lavrentiy Beria (March 5, 1953 – June 26, 1953) Sergei Kruglov...

Stalin appointed Lavrentiy Beria on 22 August 1945. Beria is noted for leadership that helped the program to its final implementation. Beria understood the...

Benediction (2021), and The Outfit (2022). In 2017, he portrayed Lavrentiy Beria in Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, for which he received the...

the Politburo set up a commission (headed by Malenkov and including Lavrentiy Beria) to investigate the issue. Based on the commission's report, the Politburo...

Committee between Lavrentiy Beria and future leader Nikita Khrushchev. Most of the story is focused on the rise and fall of Beria, narrating his struggle...

death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, he was chosen to personally execute Lavrentiy Beria, the former head of the NKVD. He was born in Kharkov, in the Russian...

Kuntsevo Dacha. As Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov leaves, NKVD-head Lavrentiy Beria reveals to Nikita Khrushchev and Deputy Chairman Georgy Malenkov that...

he was arrested and executed along with his former chief and patron Lavrentiy Beria. Bogdan Kobulov was born in Tbilisi, the son of an Armenian tailor...

Ukrainian SSR from 1939 to 1941 and Deputy Commissar of the NKVD under Lavrentiy Beria from 1941 to 1954. Serov was active in organizing NKVD activities against...

when Yezhov was removed as the head of the NKVD, to be replaced by Lavrentiy Beria, a man totally devoted to Stalin. Yezhov was arrested in April 1939...

Joseph Stalin. It is directed by Jack Gold and features David Suchet as Lavrentiy Beria and David Threlfall as Stalin's son Vasily. Red Monarch is a black...

military purges under Joseph Stalin. He was tortured and blinded by Lavrentiy Beria and his men before succumbing to his injuries. His body was then incinerated...

to a "fifth-rate" assignment. Throughout this time, security chief Lavrentiy Beria was supposedly trying to topple Zhukov. Two of Zhukov's subordinates...

After Stalin's death, Malenkov ruled as part of a troika alongside Lavrentiy Beria and Vyacheslav Molotov, Despite initially succeeding Stalin in all...

society. Chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus NKVD Lavrentiy Beria was a patron of the club until his downfall. For this reason, the team...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin under the direction of the NKVD official Lavrentiy Beria, forcibly transferred populations of various groups. These actions...

of Lavrentiy Beria and known for his cruelty during interrogations, Vlodzimirsky was arrested and executed on accounts of treason alongside Beria and...

the Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria,: 85  or to Stalin himself. There are no documentary evidence for Beria's or Stalin's attribution, however...

political repression". As early as 19 September, the head of the NKVD, Lavrentiy Beria, ordered the secret police to create the Main Administration for Affairs...

was resolved following a coup led by Nikita Khrushchev that removed Lavrentiy Beria from power. At the Kartsev-Venediktov Design Bureau (OKB-520), the...

1944, during World War II. The expulsion was ordered by NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria after approval by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, as a part of a Soviet...

and the Azerbaijan SSR. During this period the province was led by Lavrentiy Beria, the first secretary of the Georgian Central Committee of the Communist...