Lavrentiy Beria
Acting
March 29, 1899
Died at age 54
December 23, 1953
Date of Death
Merkheuli, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
6 Credits
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.
