# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lavrentiy-beria
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:36:34.374Z

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name: "Lavrentiy Beria"
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description: "He ran Stalin's secret police for seven years, organized the Katyn massacre, deported entire ethnic populations, and built the Soviet atomic bomb. After Stalin died, he briefly tried reform — then was arrested and shot by his own colleagues."
tagline: "Soviet politician and NKVD police chief"
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birthDate: "1899-03-17"
deathDate: "1953-12-23"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  An ethnic Georgian, Beria joined the Cheka in 1920 and climbed quickly. In 1938 Stalin made him head of the NKVD, ending the Great Purge by purging its architect. He organized the 1939 Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and oversaw the deportation of hundreds of thousands from occupied territories to Gulag camps. During the war he mobilized millions of Gulag prisoners for production, supervised partisan operations, and directed mass deportations from the Caucasus in 1943–44 that scholars have called ethnic cleansing or genocide. He also ran the atomic bomb project, which produced its first device in 1949. After Stalin's death in March 1953, Beria seized power in a triumvirate, released political prisoners, freed half the Gulag's inmates, and pushed détente with the West. Three months later his colleagues turned on him. He was arrested in June, tried for treason, and executed in December.