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Sergo Orjonikidze

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Sergo Orjonikidze

სერგო კონსტანტინეს ძე ორჯონიკიძე
Born
Grigol Konstantines dze Ordzhonikidze

24 October 1886
Ghoresha, Russian Empire
Died18 February 1937
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathSuicide
NationalityGeorgian
Political orientationMarxism–Leninism
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union


Sergo Konstantinovich Orjonikidze, born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze (24 October 1886 – 18 February 1937) was a Georgian Bolshevik and close ally of Stalin. He served as People's Commissar of Heavy Industry from 1932 to 1937 and followed a policy of re-educating bourgeois technical specialists. He committed suicide in 1937 after his assistant Pyatakov was found guilty of widespread sabotage and wrecking.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Ludo Martens (1996). Another View of Stalin: 'The Great Purge' (p. 125). [PDF] Editions EPO. ISBN 9782872620814