Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Born
March 29, 1899
Died
December 23, 1953 (age 54)
Place of Birth
Merkheuli, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
Also Known As
Lavrenti Beria
Лаврентий Берия
ლავრენტი პავლეს ძე ბერია
Лавренти Павлес дзе Бериа
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria
Lavrentiy Beria
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.
