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Nikolay Gikalo
Николай Гикало
Gikalo in 1935
First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party
In officeApril 1929 – June 1929
Preceded by Kuprian Kirkizh
Succeeded by Isaak Zelensky
First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
In officeAugust 1929 – June 1930
Preceded by Levon Mirzoyan
Succeeded by Vladimir Polonsky
First Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist Party
In officeJanuary 1932 – March 1937
Preceded by Konstantin Gey
Succeeded by Vasily Sharangovich
First Secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In officeMarch 1937 – October 1937
Personal details
Born (1897-03-08)March 8, 1897Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died April 25, 1938(1938-04-25) (aged 41)Moscow, USSR
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917–1937)

Nikolay Fyodorovich Gikalo (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Гика́ло; March 8, 1897 – April 25, 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet revolutionary and statesman.

He was born in Odessa into a Ukrainian peasant family. 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 Communist Party of Uzbekistan from April 1929 to June 11, 1929, first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan from 1929 to August 1930, first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia 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.

  1. ^ "Гикало Николай Федорович" [Gikalo Nikolai Fyodorovich]. hrono.info (in Russian).