Avel Yenukidze | |
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| აბელ ენუქიძე | |
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| Secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee | |
| In office 1918–1935 | |
| General Secretary | Joseph Stalin |
| Preceded by | Varlam Avanesov |
| Succeeded by | Leonid Serebryakov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 May [O.S. 7 May] 1877 |
| Died | 30 October 1937 (aged 60) |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Political party | CPSU |
Avel Safronovich Yenukidze (Georgian: აბელ ენუქიძე, Abel Enukidze, Georgian pronunciation: [abel enukʰidze]; Russian: А́вель Сафро́нович Енуки́дзе; 19 May [O.S. 7 May] 1877 – 30 October 1937) was a prominent Georgian Old Bolshevik and, at one point, a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b) in Moscow. In 1932, along with Mikhail Kalinin and Vyacheslav Molotov, Yenukidze cosigned the infamous "Law of Spikelets". In 1918 to 1935 Yenukidze served as the Secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.
He was the godfather of Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. He was shot during the Great Purge in 1937 and was rehabilitated posthumously.