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Grigoriy KaranadzeGeorgian security officer, lieutenant general of the State Security Service
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- Early Life and Career
- - Worked in district party committees from October 1925
- - Responsible Secretary of the Karayazi District Committee, July 1934
- - First Secretary of the Signakhi District Committee, May 1937
- - People's Commissar of State Security, February-July 1941
- - People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Georgia, May 7, 1943
- Later Life
Early Life and Career
- Born the son of a restaurant owner- Graduated from three grades of the Novo-Senak Theological Seminary
- Joined the Komsomol in Georgia in 1921
- Entered the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) in January 1925
- Worked in district party committees from October 1925
- Served as a member of the Georgian GPU from 1929 to 1931Political Career
- Responsible Secretary of the Gurjaan District Committee, December 1931
- Responsible Secretary of the Karayazi District Committee, July 1934
- First Secretary of the 26 Baku Commissars District Committee (Tbilisi), September 1935
- First Secretary of the Signakhi District Committee, May 1937
NKVD and MGB Career- Appointed People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Crimean ASSR, November 1938
- People's Commissar of State Security, February-July 1941
- People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Crimean ASSR, July 31, 1941 - December 17, 1942
- People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, December 17, 1942
- People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Georgia, May 7, 1943
Postwar Career- Enjoyed the trust and patronage of Lavrentiy Beria
- Arrested in the "Mingrelian Case," April 8, 1952
- Released after Beria's death and rehabilitated
- Appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Georgian SSR, April 10, 1953
- Dismissed from the MGB, October 12, 1953, and from all positions, December 19, 1953
Later Life
- Deputy Chairman of the Georgian Council of Ministers' State Committee for Forestry, 1957-1975
