Nikolai Maksimovich Rukhadze ( Georgian ნიკოლოზ რუხაძე ; 1905 - 1955 ) - Minister of the Interior of the Georgian SSR, Lieutenant General ( 1944 ).
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| ნიკოლოზ რუხაძე | ||||||||||
 Lieutenant General N. M. Rukhadze | ||||||||||
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| Place of Birth | Rustavi village , Georgia , Russian Empire | |||||||||
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| Affiliation |  the USSR | |||||||||
| Type of army | OGPU - NKVD - NKGB - MGB , SMERSH | |||||||||
| Years of service | ... - 1952 | |||||||||
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| Commanded | Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Georgian SSR , SMERSH of the Transcaucasian Front | |||||||||
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| Communications | L.P. Beria | |||||||||
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Biography
He had a secondary education . In the late 1930s. - Head of the district department of the NKVD in Gagra . Intrigued G.K. Ordzhonikidze against the whole family [1] . He widely used torture and beatings during the investigation, stating: “He who does not beat is the enemy of the people himself!” In 1939-1941, the head of the investigative unit of the NKVD of the Georgian SSR. In 1941-1948, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Georgian SSR and head of the Special Department of the Transcaucasian Front . From April 19, 1943 to August 1945, he was the head of the SMERSH Counterintelligence Directorate of the Transcaucasian Military District . In 1948-1952, Minister of State Security of the Georgian SSR.
In 1948, on the basis of Stalin's order, Rukhadze invited Georgian Menshevik emigrants from France, who received security guarantees from the Soviet government. In 1951-1952, Rukhadze began to organize persecution against them: The famous publicist Samson Pirtskhalava was exiled to Central Asia, while the 84-year-old scientist, academician Ekvtime Takayshvili, was repeatedly summoned to humiliating interrogations to Rukhadze.
The main organizer of the Mingrelian Nationalist Group case , ultimately directed, according to some researchers, against L.P. Beria . In 1952 he was arrested [2] . On September 19, 1955, in Tbilisi, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced to death and then shot.
Notes
- ↑ Brother of the accused N. M. Rukhadze - I. M. Rukhadze, in his explanation of November 5, 1937 to the NKVD of Georgia wrote:
“... Nikolay Rukhadze in the editorial office of the newspaper Musha noticed portraits that we were preparing for the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Incidentally, he said that portraits of Comrade should not be taken out. S. Ordzhonikidze ... "
During the investigation, N. M. Rukhadze confirmed the fact of this conversation with his brother and admitted that he had already known in 1937 that some people arrested in the NKVD of Georgia extorted slanderous testimonies against G. K. Ordzhonikidze.
In 1938, Rukhadze also took a direct part in the reprisal inflicted by Beria on the relatives of G.K. Ordzhonikidze. The G.K. Ordzhonikidze’s brother, I.K. Ordzhonikidze, and the latter’s wife, A.M. Ordzhonikidze, were arrested by the Road Transport Department of the Transcaucasian Railway, which was headed by Rukhadze during this period, who were then illegally convicted of materials falsified under the leadership of Rukhadze .
- ↑ Copy of indictment on N. M. Rukhadze. April 1954