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Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze; 24 October [O.S. 12 October] 1886 – 18 February 1937) was a Georgian-born Bolshevik and Soviet politician.
ORDZHONIKIDZE, GRIGORY KONSTANTINOVICH. (1886 – 1937), leading Bolshevik who participated in bringing Ukraine and the Caucasus under Soviet rule and directed industry during the early five-year plans. Grigory Konstantinovich ("Sergo") Ordzhonikidze was born in Goresha, Georgia, to an impoverished gentry family.
On the anniversary of his birth, October 12, 1886, a look at the life of the great Georgian Bolshevik revolutionary and hero Grigory (Sergo) Ordzhonikidze (also spelled Orjonikidze) from the Soviet press in 1987:
Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze; 24 October [ O.S. 12 October] 1886 – 18 February 1937) was a Georgian-born Bolshevik and Soviet politician. Quick Facts People's Commissar of Heavy Industry, Preceded by ...
May 26, 2022 · Grigorii Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (known in the underground as ‘Sergo’) might seem at first glance a ‘minor’ character in Soviet history. In fact, he is one of the ‘great’ minors, one of those political leaders whom scholars...
Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (born October 12 [October 24, New Style], 1886, Goresha, Russia—died February 18, 1937, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a communist leader who played a major role in bringing Georgia under Soviet rule and in industrializing the Soviet Union.
G.K. Ordzhonikidze [Orjonikidze] was the People's Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR from 1932 to 1937. A close associate of Stalin's, Ordzhonikidze came out from the Caucasus, in 1930 he...
