Lavrentiy Beria

Executed in Moscow after a secret trial.

Appointed Minister of Internal Affairs after Stalin's death.

Oversaw the successful testing of the first Soviet atomic bomb.

Became Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union.

Awarded the rank of General Commissar of State Security.

Appointed head of the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs).

Became First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party.

Head of the Transcaucasian OGPU (secret police).

Joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

Graduated from Baku Polytechnic School.

Enrolled in the Baku Polytechnic School.

Born in Merkheuli, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Georgia).