Telman Gdlyan

Telman Gdlyan
Թելման Գդլյան
Telman Gdlyan, 18 August 1988.
BornDecember 20, 1940 (age 83) Samsar village , Akhalkalaki Municipality , Georgian SSR , USSR
Citizenship Soviet Union and
 Russia
EducationSaratov State Academy of Law
Occupation(s)politician, criminal investigator,member of the State Duma
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
SpouseSusanna Hakobovna
Children2
Awards

Telman Khorenovich Gdlyan (Russian: Те́льман Хоре́нович Гдлян Armenian: Թելման Խորենի Գդլյան, romanized: Telman Khoreni Gdlyan) is a Soviet and Russian public and statesman of Armenian origin.[1][2][3]

He is best known for his work as part of the investigative group of the USSR Prosecutor General's Office (the "Gdlyan-Ivanov group"), which investigated corruption in the highest echelons of power in Uzbekistan and began collecting evidence of bribery by senior leaders of the USSR.[4][5][6][7] He lives in Moscow.[8]

  1. ^ McCauley, Martin; Mccauley, Martin (2002-09-11). Who's Who in Russia since 1900. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-134-77214-8.
  2. ^ Scot Overbey (March 1994). Vladimir Zhirinovsky: The Man Who Would Be God. Hearthstone Publishing, Limited (published 1994). p. 22. ISBN 978-1-879366-74-9.
  3. ^ Hanks, Reuel R. (2024-02-19). Historical Dictionary of Uzbekistan. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-5381-0229-9.
  4. ^ Zubok, Vladislav M. (2021-11-30). Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union. Yale University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-300-25730-4.
  5. ^ The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs. Hoover Press. 1993. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-8179-9233-0.
  6. ^ Mccauley, Martin (2014-01-14). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. Routledge. p. 372. ISBN 978-1-317-86783-8.
  7. ^ "Аргументы и факты — Гдлян и Иванов. Застрельщики "узбекского дела" - "Аргументы и факты", № 17". 2009-02-09. Archived from the original on 2009-02-09.
  8. ^ "Где сейчас Гдлян и Иванов, чем занимаются?".