Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Beria

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ( BERR-ee-ə; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия, IPA: [lɐˈvrʲenʲtʲɪj ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈbʲerʲɪjə]; Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია, romanized: lavrent'i beria, IPA: [ˈɫavɾentʼi ˈbeɾia]; 29 March [O.S. 17 March] 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and its state security administrator and chief, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during the Second World War, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin in 1941. He officially joined the Politburo in 1946. Beria was the longest-serving and most influential of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lavrentiy Beria has received more than 8,608,039 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Lavrentiy Beria is the 526th most popular politician (up from 774th in 2019). (up from 7th in 2019)

Lavrentiy Beria was most famous for his involvement in the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program.