Nikolai Gikalo
Nikolay Fyodorovich Gikalo (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Гика́ло; March 8, 1897 – April 25, 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet revolutionary and statesman.
Nikolay Gikalo | |
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| Никола́й Гика́ло | |
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| First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party | |
| In office April 1929 – June 1929 | |
| Preceded by | Kuprian Kirkizh |
| Succeeded by | Isaak Zelensky |
| First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party | |
| In office August 1929 – June 1930 | |
| Preceded by | Levon Mirzoyan |
| Succeeded by | Vladimir Polonsky |
| First Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist Party | |
| In office January 1932 – March 1937 | |
| Preceded by | Konstantin Gey |
| Succeeded by | Vasily Sharangovich |
| First Secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine | |
| In office March 1937 – October 1937 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 8, 1897 Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | April 25, 1938 (aged 41) Moscow, USSR |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917–1937) |
Biography
He was born in Odessa into a Ukrainian peasant family. From 1915 he served in the Russian Imperial Army, in 1917 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). He commanded the Red Army in the fight against the White Army in the Northern Caucasus. He was first secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from April 1929 to June 11, 1929, first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan from 1929 to August 1930, first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from January 18, 1932, to March 18, 1937. During the Great Purge, Gikalo was arrested, accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on April 25, 1938. He was exonerated posthumously in 1955.
A city in Chechnya is named after him.
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External links
Media related to Nikolai Gikalo at Wiki Commons- Гикало Николай Федорович at www.hrono.ru
