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Lavrentiy Beria

Also Known As: Lavrenti Beria, Лаврентий Берия, ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია

Birth Date

March 29, 1899

Death Date

December 23, 1953

(passed away at 54)

Place of Birth

Merkheuli, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire

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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.