Nikolai Gikalo

First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist PartyIn office
April 1929 – June 1929Preceded byKuprian KirkizhSucceeded byIsaak ZelenskyFirst Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist PartyIn office
August 1929 – June 1930Preceded byLevon MirzoyanSucceeded byVladimir PolonskyFirst Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist PartyIn office
January 1932 – March 1937Preceded byKonstantin GeySucceeded byVasily SharangovichFirst Secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of UkraineIn office
March 1937 – October 1937 Personal detailsBorn(1897-03-08)March 8, 1897
Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian EmpireDiedApril 25, 1938(1938-04-25) (aged 41)
Moscow, USSRPolitical partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1917–1937)

Nikolay Fyodorovich Gikalo (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Гика́ло; March 8, 1897 – April 25, 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet revolutionary and statesman.

Biography

He was born in Odessa into a Ukrainian peasant family. From 1915 he served in the Russian Imperial Army, in 1917 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). He commanded the Red Army in the fight against the White Army in the Northern Caucasus. He was first secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from April 1929 to June 11, 1929, first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan from 1929 to August 1930, first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from January 18, 1932, to March 18, 1937. During the Great Purge, Gikalo was arrested, accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on April 25, 1938. He was exonerated posthumously in 1955.^[1]

A city in Chechnya is named after him.

See also

• Azerbaijan Communist Party

References

External links

• Media related to Nikolai Gikalo at Wikimedia Commons
• Гикало Николай Федорович at www.hrono.ru