Yakov Dzhugashvili
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Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was a Georgian-born Soviet engineer and Red Army officer. He was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine
Dzhugashvili in 1941
Father, Ioseb Dzhugashvili (Joseph Stalin)
Mother, Kato Svanidze
Dzhugashvili shortly after being captured
Kato Svanidze
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Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and the mother of his eldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili.
Yakov Dzhugashvili
…April 1943) was a Georgian-born Soviet engineer and Red Army officer. He was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his late 20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family…
Jughashvili in a 1902 mugshot
Funeral of Kato Svanidze, with family and husband Stalin (right)