People of the Revolution and the USSR
Security, intelligence and policing
Background: Georgia
People of the Stalin era 1929–1953
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- Shalva Otarovich Tsereteli Шалва Отарович Церетели From tsarist officer to Beria's untitled enforcer in state security
- Vladimir Georgiyevich Dekanozov Владимир Георгиевич Деканозов He staged Lithuania's annexation and took the declaration of war in Berlin
- Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria Лаврентий Павлович Берия The secret-police chief who arrived carrying reforms
- Avksenty Narikievich Rapava Авксентий Нарикиевич Рапава He ran the Georgian police apparatus for a decade
- Sergo Arsenievich Goglidze Сергей Арсеньевич Гоглидзе From running the terror in Georgia to overlord of the Far East
- Grigory Teofilovich Karanadze Григорий Теофилович Каранадзе The Georgian interior minister who survived the purge
- Stepan Solomonovich Mamulov Степан Соломонович Мамулов The gatekeeper who held the NKVD secretariat
- Sardion Nikolayevich Nadaraya Сардион Николаевич Надарая Beria's bodyguard chief, formerly of the internal prison
- Nikolai Maksimovich Rukhadze Николай Максимович Рухадзе He drove the Mingrelian affair and then fell himself
- Amayak Zakharovich Kobulov Амаяк Захарович Кобулов The Berlin rezident who piped Nazi disinformation to Moscow