Kazys Giedrys

Kazys Giedrys
Born(1891-03-15)15 March 1891
Died27 December 1926(1926-12-27) (aged 35)
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
NationalityLithuanian
Political partyRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolsheviks)
Communist Party of Lithuania

Kazys Giedrys (15 March 1891 – 27 December 1926) was a Lithuanian revolutionary and communist political activist.

Born in Lithuania, Giedrys was a factory worker in the United States before moving to Petrograd in 1917. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) and supported the October Revolution. He was secretary of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Sections of the Russian Communist Party (1921–1923) and secretary of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Red Aid (1926). He was arrested and executed by Lithuania after the 1926 Lithuanian coup d'état.


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