- Sergo Goglidze
Sergo Goglidze — Georgian
NKVD official.Biography
Born in the village near
Kutaisi , Goglidze joinedCheka in 1921. He served in a GPU-NKVD border troops, raising through the ranks. In 1934 he was appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of theTranscaucasian SFSR , and from 1937 - ofGeorgian SSR . Goglidze was close associate and friend ofLavrentiy Beria , who promoted Goglidze to the high-level positions.In 1941 he was appointed Plenipotentiary of the People's Commissars Council in the Moldavia, being in charge of big deportation. In july 1941, after the start of the war he was moved to
Khabarovsk , working as a chief of the Soviet security apparatus at the Far East.In 1951 he was moved to the headquarthers of the
MGB in Moscow, serving as a Deputy Minister of State Security. Goglidze was in charge of the investigation of theDoctors' Plot .In 1953, after the death of Stalin and downfall of Beria, he was arrested and shot together with group of other NKVD officers close to
Lavrentiy Beria .
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