Nikolai Gikalo Explained

Nikolay Gikalo
Birth Date:8 March 1897
Birth Place:Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Death Place:Moscow, USSR
Office:First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party
Term Start:April 1929
Term End:June 1929
Office1:First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
Term Start1:August 1929
Term End1:June 1930
Office2:First Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist Party
Term Start2:January 1932
Term End2:March 1937
Office3:First Secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Term Start3:March 1937
Term End3:October 1937
Party:Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917–1937)
Predecessor:Kuprian Kirkizh
Successor:Isaak Zelensky
Predecessor1:Levon Mirzoyan
Successor1:Vladimir Polonsky
Predecessor2:Konstantin Gey
Successor2:Vasily Sharangovich
Native Name Lang:ru

Nikolay Fyodorovich Gikalo (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Гика́ло; March 8, 1897 – April 25, 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet revolutionary and statesman.

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.[1]

A city in Chechnya is named after him.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Гикало Николай Федорович. Gikalo Nikolai Fyodorovich. ru. hrono.info.