Avel Yenukidze

Avel Yenukidze
Avel Yenukidze
აბელ ენუქიძე
	Yenukidze, Joseph Stalin and Maxim Gorky in Red Square in 1931
Secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
	In office; 1918–1935
General Secretary	Joseph Stalin
Preceded by	Varlam Avanesov
Succeeded by	Leonid Serebryakov
Personal details
Born	19 May [O.S. 7 May] 1877
Died	30 October 1937 (aged 60)
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Nationality	Soviet
Political party	CPSU

Avel Safronovich Yenukidze (Georgian: აბელ ენუქიძე, Abel Enukidze, Georgian pronunciation: [abel enukʰidze]; Russian: А́вель Сафро́нович Енуки́дзе; 19 May [O.S. 7 May] 1877 – 30 October 1937) was a prominent Georgian "Old Bolshevik" and, at one point, a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b) in Moscow. In 1932, along with Mikhail Kalinin and Vyacheslav Molotov, Yenukidze co-signed the infamous "Law of Spikelets". In 1918 to 1935 Yenukidze served as the Secretary of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.

He was the godfather of Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. He was shot during the Great Purge in 1937 and was rehabilitated posthumously.