Lavrenty Kartvelishvili

Lavrenty Kartvelishvili before 1938

Lavrenty Kartvelishvili (Georgian: ლავრენტი იოსების ძე ქართველიშვილი; Russian: Картвелишвили, Лаврентий Иосифович; 1890–1938) was a Georgian Soviet politician and the First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from 11 September to 14 November 1931.

Biography

He was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik Party) of Georgia in 1923-1928, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR in 1927-1928, and chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Georgian SSR in 1927-1929. From 11 September to 14 November 1931, he was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia.

After beginning replaced in Georgia by his political adversary Lavrentiy Beria, he became between 1931-1933 First secretary of the National Committee of the All-Union Communist Party in Western Siberia, and between 1933-1936 in the Far East. From 28 December 1936 to 14 July 1937, he was First Secretary of the District Committee of the CPSU in the Crimea.

On 29 June 1937, he was arrested by the NKVD at the request of Pavel Postyshev, accused of espionage for Germany, Japan, Great Britain and other foreign powers, participation in a conspiracy to overthrow Soviet power and the murder of Stalin, Yezhov and other party and state leaders. Sentenced to death by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR, he was executed in Kommunarka on 22 August 1938.

Sources

• Free Dictionary
• http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_k/kvartveli.php (Russian)
• https://oval.ru/enc/88572.html (Russian)