Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze

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Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze

Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze Orjonikidze, Russian

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: ???????? ?????????????? ????????????), generally known as Sergo Ordzhonikidze ( – February 18, 1937) was a member of the Politburo, and close friend to Stalin. Ordzhonikidze, Stalin and Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan was an Armenian people Old Bolshevik and Soviet Union statesman during the Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev years....
comprised what was jokingly referred to as the "Caucasian Clique".

Born in Kharagauli

Kharagauli

is the Imereti region of western Georgia.During the Soviet period, has been called to kharagauli Ordzjonikidze Gregory Ordzjonikidze, a senior official, who was born in 1886...
, Western Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
, Ordzhonikidze became involved in radical politics in 1903, and after graduating as a doctor from the Mikhailov Hospital Medical School in Tiflis, was arrested for arms transferring.

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Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze Orjonikidze, Russian

Russian language

Anastas Mikoyan

Kharagauli

is the Imereti region of western Georgia.During the Soviet period, has been called to kharagauli Ordzjonikidze Gregory Ordzjonikidze, a senior official, who was born in 1886...
, Western Georgia

Georgia (country)

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, but in 1907 returned to Russia and settled in Baku

Baku

Baku , sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bak?, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan....
where he worked with Stalin and others. Sergo participated in the Persian Constitutional Revolution on a mission by the Bolshevik

Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
party and stayed in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran, and the administrative center of Tehran Province. Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia....
for a while (around 1909), and later in 1920-1921 in establishing the Socialist Republic of Gilan (Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
).

He was arrested for being a member of the Social Democratic Party

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, or RSDLP , also known as the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and the Russian Social-Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party....
and deported to Siberia

Siberia

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, but managed to escape 3 years later. He returned with Stalin to St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
in April 1912, but again was apprehended and sentenced to 3 years hard labour. During the course of the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed and the Bolshevik party assumed power in Saint Petersburg....
, he became a commissar

Commissar

Commissar is the English transliteration of an official title The title was mostly associated with a number of Cheka and military functions in many Bolshevik and Soviet government military forces during the Russian Civil War; the White Army widely used the collective term bolsheviks and commissars for their opponents....
for the Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
and took part in fighting in the Caucasus

Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region located between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. It is home to Europe's highest mountain ....
, where he would later help establish Soviet power in states such as Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
. In 1921 he led a Bolshevik invasion

Red Army invasion of Georgia

The Red Army invasion of Georgia also known as the Soviet-Georgian War was a military campaign by the Russian SFSR Red Army against the Democratic Republic of Georgia aimed at overthrowing the local Georgian Social Democratic Party government and installing the Bolshevik regime in the country....
of the Democratic Republic of Georgia

Democratic Republic of Georgia

The Democratic Republic of Georgia , 1918?1921, was the first modern establishment of a Republic of Georgia .The DRG was created after the collapse of the Russian Empire that began with the Russian Revolution of 1917....
and established the Socialist Republic of Georgia

Georgian SSR

The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Georgian SSR for short, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the former Soviet Union....
. Later, he fought to reduce Georgian autonomy from the Russian SFSR

Russian SFSR

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , also called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Russian SFSR and the RSFSR for short, was the largest and most populous of the fifteen Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union and became the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union....
and hence became a key figure involved in the Georgian Affair

Georgian Affair

The Georgian Affair of 1922 was a political conflict within the Soviet Union leadership about the way in which social and political transformation was to be achieved in the Georgian SSR....
of 1922.