Nikolai Gikalo

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

Nikolay Gikalo
Николай Гикало
Gikalo in 1935
First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party
In office April 1929 – June 1929
Preceded by	Kuprian Kirkizh
Succeeded by	Isaak Zelensky
First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
In office August 1929 – June 1930
Preceded by	Levon Mirzoyan
Succeeded by	Vladimir Polonsky
First Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist Party
In office January 1932 – March 1937
Preceded by	Konstantin Gey
Succeeded by	Vasily Sharangovich
First Secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office March 1937 – October 1937
Personal details
Born	(1897-03-08)March 8, 1897 Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	April 25, 1938(1938-04-25) (aged 41) Moscow, USSR
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917–1937)

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.

A city in Chechnya is named after him.

See also

• Azerbaijan Communist Party

External links

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