Aghasi Khanjian
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Aghasi Ghevondi Khanjian was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia from May 1930 to July 1936.
Khanjian in 1934
Nestor Lakoba, Nikita Khrushchev, Lavrenti Beria and Aghasi Khanjian at the opening of the Moscow Metro in 1936, the same year Khanjian and Lakoba were killed by Beria. In 1953, Khrushchev had Beria executed.
Khanjian's commemorative plaque in Yerevan
Lavrentiy Beria
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Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945 during the
Aghasi Khanjian
…General Benevolent Union, which contributed to Gulbenkian's resignation from the post in 1932. In the mid-1930s, Khanjian came into conflict with Lavrentiy Beria, the leader of the Georgian SSR and the most powerful party leader in the Transcaucasian SFSR. Khanjian had poor relations with Beria and had openly…
Official portrait, c. 1938–1940
Young Svetlana Stalina sitting on Beria's lap, with Stalin (in the background) and Nestor Lakoba in 1931.
Beria in 1934