Burlatsky quotes Khrushchev as saying that he and Anastas I. Mikoyan, then a senior member of the Politburo, discussed Beria at Stalin’s dacha on the day in 1953 when Stalin died. Bogdan Zakharovich Kobulov ( Russian: Богда́н Заха́рович Кобу́лов; 1 March 1904 – 23 December 1953) served as a senior member of the Soviet security- and police-apparatus during the rule of Joseph Stalin. After Stalin's death he was arrested and executed along with his former chief and patron Lavrentiy Beria . Along with Krushchev, Malenkov was one of a few important members of Stalin's group of partners (called the "inner circle") who died a natural death, and was not executed. Together with Lavrentiy Beria and Krushchev , Malenkov began the process of destalinization , completing the process from 1953-1961. A Soviet politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin from 1941. He later officially joined the Politburo in 1946. Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria ( 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Joseph Stalin. He was top deputy of the NKVD during the Great Purge, responsible for many of the millions of imprisonments and killings. He was arrested and executed by his political rivals Georgy Malenkov. Jeffrey Tambor. The Death of Stalin is a 2017 satirical black comedy directed by Armando Iannucci ( The Thick of It, In the Loop, Veep) and based on the French graphic novel La mort de Staline. Set in the Soviet Union in 1953, the film depicts the power struggle following the death of Joseph Stalin. WARNING! 1938-11-25 Lavrentiy Beria succeeds Nikolai Yezhov as the head of the Soviet secret police, NKVD, after Yezhov was executed on Joseph Stalin 's orders. 1953-06-26 Lavrentiy Beria, one of the trio of Soviet leaders after Stalin's death and the former secret police chief, is ousted from power and arrested. Beria was once introduced by Soviet A close confidant of Lavrentiy Beria, and likewise an ethnic Mingrelian, he was arrested after the death of Joseph Stalin and died in prison awaiting a trial. Career. Lavrentiy Tsanava was born in Nakhunavo, in the Kutaisi region of Georgia. FE6qoZx.