Nikolai Gikalo

Nikolay Gikalo
First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
In office 1929–1930
Personal details
Born	(1897-03-08)March 8, 1897 Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	April 25, 1938(1938-04-25) (aged 41)
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Nikolay Fyodorovich Gikalo (Russian: Николай Фёдорович Гикало; born March 8, 1897, Odessa, Kherson Governorate – April 25, 1938) was a Soviet revolutionary and statesman. 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 Azerbaijan Communist Party from 1929 to August 1930, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR from April 1929 to June 11, 1929 and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Belorussian SSR 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

• Гикало Николай Федорович at www.hrono.ru

Leaders of Azerbaijan since 1918
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh Alimardan Topchubashov Mammad Yusif Jafarova
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic	Mirza Davud Huseynov Grigory Kaminsky Sergey Kirov Levon Mirzoyan Nikolay Gikalo Vladimir Polonsky Mir Jafar Baghirov Mir Teymur Yaqubov Imam Mustafayev Vali Akhundov Heydar Aliyev Kamran Baghirov Abdurrahman Vazirov Ayaz Mütallibov
Republic of Azerbaijan	Ayaz Mutallibov Yagub Mammadova Ayaz Mutallibov Isa Gambara Abulfaz Elchibey Heydar Aliyev Ilham Aliyev
(a) Denotes acting

Leaders of Belarus since 1918
	Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1919) Sierada
	Belarusian People's Republic in exile (since 1919) Krecheuski Zakharka Abramchyk Zhuk-Hryshkyevich Sazhych Rahula* Survilla
	First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991) Knorinsh Osatkin-Vladimirsky Krinitsky Goloded Knorinsh Gamarnik Gey Gikalo Sharangovich Yakovlev* Volkov Ponomarenko Gusarov Patolichev Mazurov Masherov Kiselyov Slyunkov Sokolov Malofeyev
	Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus (1991–1994) Shushkevich Kuznetsov* Hryb
/	President of Belarus (since 1994) Lukashenko
* acting

Leaders of Uzbekistan
Uzbek SSR	Vladimir Ivanov Kuprian Kirkizh Nikolay Gikalo Isaak Zelensky Akmal Ikramov Pyotr Yakovlev Usman Yusupov* Sirodzh Nurutdinov Amin Niyazov Nuritdin Mukhitdinov Sobir Kamolov Sharof Rashidov Inomjon Usmonxo‘jayev Rafiq Nishonov Islam Karimov
Uzbekistan	Islam Karimov Nigmatilla Yuldashev* Shavkat Mirziyoyev
* denotes acting