Lavrentiy Beria

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Soviet politician human intelligence officer secret police chief

Lavrentiy Beria was a powerful Soviet politician and secret police chief under Joseph Stalin, notorious for his role in political repression, mass terror, and overseeing the Gulag system.

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Label Occurrences
Lavrentiy Beria canonical 19
Beria 1

Statements (63)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician ⓘ
human ⓘ
intelligence officer ⓘ
secret police chief ⓘ
awardReceived Hero of Socialist Labour ⓘ
Order of Lenin ⓘ
Order of the Red Banner ⓘ
Stalin Prize ⓘ
causeOfDeath execution by firing squad ⓘ
closeTo Joseph Stalin ⓘ
convictedOf counter-revolutionary activities ⓘ
molestation and rape ⓘ
terrorism ⓘ
treason ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1899-03-29 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1953-12-23 ⓘ
educatedAt Baku Polytechnicum ⓘ
employer MVD of the USSR ⓘ
NKVD ⓘ
Soviet government ⓘ
ethnicGroup Georgians ⓘ
familyName Lavrentiy Beria self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Beria
givenName Lavrentiy ⓘ
hasRole political commissar ⓘ
state security administrator ⓘ
languageSpoken Azerbaijani language ⓘ
Georgian language ⓘ
Russian language ⓘ
mannerOfDeath capital punishment ⓘ
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
nativeLanguage Georgian language ⓘ
notableFor leadership of Soviet secret police under Joseph Stalin ⓘ
oversight of deportations of various ethnic groups ⓘ
role in mass terror in the Soviet Union ⓘ
notableWork coordination of Soviet internal security and political repression ⓘ
oversight of the Gulag system ⓘ
supervision of the Soviet atomic bomb project ⓘ
participantIn Great Purge ⓘ
Soviet atomic bomb project (indirectly, via espionage) ⓘ
surface form: Soviet atomic bomb program

Soviet political repression ⓘ
World War II ⓘ
placeOfBirth Kutais Governorate ⓘ
Merkheuli ⓘ
Russian Empire ⓘ
Sukhumi Okrug ⓘ
surface form: Sukhumi District
placeOfDeath Moscow ⓘ
Russian SFSR ⓘ
Soviet Union ⓘ
positionHeld Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union ⓘ
First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union ⓘ
First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party ⓘ
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR ⓘ
surface form: Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union

People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR ⓘ
Secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Committee of the Communist Party ⓘ
head of the NKVD ⓘ
member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
religion atheism ⓘ
sexOrGender male ⓘ
workLocation Moscow ⓘ
Tbilisi ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

NKVD → notableLeader → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Nikolai Yezhov → replacedBy → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
MVD → associatedWith → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Beria period of the NKVD → leader → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Beria period of the NKVD → headOfAgency → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush (1944) → implementedBy → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Lavrentiy Beria → familyName → Lavrentiy Beria self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Beria
Leningrad Affair → participant → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Doctors' Plot → reversedBy → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Soviet atomic bomb project (indirectly, via espionage) → coordinatedBy → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR → notableOfficeHolder → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR → officeHeldBy → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Soviet leadership collective under Nikita Khrushchev → notableMember → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
State Defense Committee → member → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Kuntsevo Cemetery → hasGraveOf → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
The Death of Stalin → portrays → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
Soviet thermonuclear weapons program → keyPerson → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
NKWD → employerOf → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
subject surface form: NKVD
NKWD → notableCommander → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ
subject surface form: NKVD
Operation Lentil → perpetrator → Lavrentiy Beria ⓘ