Over time, Joseph Stalin resided in various places:
At various times, Stalin used about 20 dachas. [1]
Dachas in Moscow area:
Elsewhere in Russia:
There were 5 Stalin's dachas in Abkhazia [2]
He also used to stay in other state residences, such as Livadia Palace, Crimea or Massandra Palace, Crimea. Alternatively, many of Stalin's dachas were used for state functions, by other high-ranking Soviet officials, and by foreign guests.
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and its state security administrator and chief, and chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during the Second World War, and promoted to deputy premier under Stalin in 1941. He officially joined the Politburo in 1946. Beria was the longest-serving and most influential and brutal of Stalin's secret police chiefs, wielding his most substantial influence during and after the war. Following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, he was responsible for organising purges such as the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and officials.
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