Vissarion Lominadze | |
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ბესარიონ ლომინაძე | |
| First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party | |
| In office 22 October 1922 – August 1924 | |
| Preceded by | Mikheil Okudzhava |
| Succeeded by | Mikheil Kakhiani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 June 1897 Kutaisi, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 19 January 1935 (aged 37) Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Georgian, Soviet |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Spouse | Nina Aleksandrovna |
| Children | Sergo Lominadze |
| Education | Sverdlov Communist University |
| Alma mater | Petrograd Polytechnic University |
Vissarion Vissarionovich "Beso" Lominadze (Georgian: ბესარიონ ლომინაძე, romanized: besarion lominadze; ‹See Tfd›Russian: Виссарион Виссарионович Ломинадзе; 6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1878 – 19 January 1935),[1] was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician. The head of the Transcaucasian Oblast organization of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) [VKP(b)], Lominadze is best remembered as a participant in the Syrtsov-Lominadze affair of 1930, a failed attempt to rein in the growing power of Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin.