Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze was an Old Bolshevik and a Soviet statesman.
Ordzhonikidze in 1937
The house where Ordzhonikidze was born in Ghoresha, Georgia.
Ordzhonikidze's Okhrana mugshot, 1912
Orjonikidze's telegram to Lenin and Stalin: "The Red Flag of Soviet power flies over Tiflis..." This marked the consolidation of Bolshevik control in the South Caucasus.
Joseph Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Sov
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
…part in the campaigns against so-called wreckers and saboteurs that began in the early 1930s, causing friction between himself and his longtime friend Joseph Stalin, whom he helped during his rise to power. Realizing the need for people experienced in their fields, Ordzhonikidze refused to purge older workers or…
Stalin at the Tehran Conference in 1943
Police photo of Stalin, 1902
First issue of Pravda, of which Stalin served as an early editor
Stalin in 1917 as a young People's Commissar