Marshal Beria. Strokes to the biography. 2nd edition, modified. Gusarov A.Yu.

Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria-the head of the NKVD in 1938-1943. and the head of the United Ministry of the Interior and State Security. In 1945-1953 Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, during the war, a member of the GKO, a representative of the rate during the defense of the Caucasus, Marshal of the USSR. After the war, the curator of the creation of atomic and missile weapons. Four months after the death of I.V. Stalin is shifted from all posts, declared an English spy, a musavatist, the conspirator and executed. At the same time, there are other versions: killed during the arrest, hidden abroad, etc. L.P. Beria is one of the few CPSU figures who are still not rehabilitated, although his merits and contribution to the defense of the country have few doubts today. Despite the fact that over the past sixty years, dozens of films and books about Beria have been published, his personality and his story continue to arouse interest.

In the book proposed to the reader, an attempt is made (with links to all the open in the public domain Information) give an objective characteristic to this extraordinary figure in the Soviet Union. The publication is equipped with archival documents and photographs.