Nikolai Gikalo
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Biography
He was born in Odessa into a Ukrainian peasant family on March 8, 1897.[1] In 1915, he graduated from the Tiflis Military Paramedic School.[2] From 1915 he served in the Russian Imperial Army,[3] in 1917 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks).[4] 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.[5]
A city in Chechnya is named after him. A street near Yakub Kolas Square is also named after him.[6]
See also
References
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- Гикало Николай Федорович at www.hrono.ru
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- 1897 births
- 1938 deaths
- Politicians from Odesa
- People from Odessky Uyezd
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members
- Old Bolsheviks
- Members of the Central Auditing Commission of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- Candidates of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- First secretaries of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan
- First secretaries of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
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- Ukrainian revolutionaries
- Ukrainian people of World War I
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