Lavrentiy Tsanava

Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava (Лаврентий Фомич Цанава; ლავრენტი ცანავა; born Lavrentiy Janjghava Лаврентий Джанджгава; ლავრენტი ჯანჯღავა, ; 9 August 1900 – 12 October 1955) was a Soviet politician who served as the head of the Committee for State Security of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (KGB) from 1941 until 1951. A close confidant of Lavrentiy Beria, and likewise an ethnic Mingrelian from Abkhazia, he was arrested after the death of Joseph Stalin and died in prison awaiting a trial.