Lavrentiy Beria

Acting

March 29, 1899— December 23, 1953 (age 54)

Merkheuli, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire

Also Known As

Lavrenti Beria, Лаврентий Берия, ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, Лавренти Павлес дзе Бериа, Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria

Biography

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941. He later officially joined the Politburo in 1946.