Vladimir Dekanozov

Vladimir Dekanozov
Владимир Георгиевич Деканозов
Minister of Internal Affairs of the Georgian SSR
In office
April 15 1953 – July 10 1953
Preceded byVarlam Kakuchaya
Succeeded byAleksi Inauri
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
March 1946 – March 1947
Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Germany
In office
November 24 1940 – June 22 1941
Preceded byAlexander Shkvartsev
Succeeded bydiplomatic relations severed
Head of the 5th Department of GUGB-NKVD
In office
December 2 1938 – May 13 1939
Preceded byPavel Sudoplatov
Succeeded byPavel Fitin
Personal details
BornJune 1898
Died23 December 1953 (aged 55)
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
Military service
Allegiance Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918–1922)
Soviet Union (1922–1953)
Branch/serviceRed Army
Cheka
GPU
OGPU
NKVD
MGB
Years of service1918–1953
Rank Colonel General
Battles/warsWorld War II
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Vladimir Georgievich Dekanozov (Russian: Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Декано́зов; June 1898 – 23 December 1953) was a Soviet senior state security operative and diplomat.

According to the sentence issued by Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union he was an associate of the "Lavrentiy Beria gang" and was sentenced to death in 1953. The sentence was carried out shortly after.