Birthday
1899/03/29
Day of death
1953/12/23 (54 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Merkheuli, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
Also know as
Lavrenti Beria, Лаврентий Берия, ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია, Лавренти Павлес дзе Бериа
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lavrentiy Beria, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.