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Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Beria
Lavrentiy Beria, a prominent Soviet leader of the Stalin era, became an icon of the power and cruelty of USSR law enforcement.
His life path of serving both the regime and the country was a reflection of a difficult and tragic, yet great time, when a new socialist state emerged, developed and rose on the ruins of the collapsed empire.
Childhood and Adolescence
Lavrentiy Beria was born on March 17 (29), 1899, in the Georgian village of Merkheuli to the family of Megrelian peasants Pavel Beria (1872–1922) and Marta Jaqeli (1868–1955).
Lavrentiy Beria spent his childhood and adolescence in Georgia and Azerbaijan. At the age of 16, after receiving primary education in Sukhumi, he moved to Baku to pursue his studies at the Mechanical and Technical School of Construction.
In parallel, Beria was working for the Nobel Oil Company to provide for his family.
Lavrentiy's studies in Baku (1916–1919) coincided with the perio