Biography
The son of Lawrence Beria Sergo lived a hard life, but not in his fault - his fate gave the sins of the father. However, for life, he retained attachment to him until recent days, he hoped to whiten the name of the parent. A talented designer, Sergo brought a lot of benefit to their native country, although he had to prove his talents after the death of Stalin.Childhood and youth
Sergo Lavrentievich Beria (Gegechkin) was born on November 24, 1924 in Tbilisi. In some sources, information has been preserved that at birth, he was given another name - Otar, but soon his father changed his mind and called him in honor of the friend of the family of Sergo Ordzhonikidze.
After the end of the sevenletics in 1938, he together with the parents of Lavrenting Beria and Nino Timauraz moved to Moscow. As a child, the boy was fond of music and actively studied foreign languages - besides German and English, he taught Dutch, Japanese and French and later spoke in many of them.
Moving the family to the capital was forced. Lavrenty Beria received the first deputy of the People's Commissioner of the Interior - on the promise of Stalin, for just a couple of years, and then he would be allegedly allowed to return to his native Georgia.
Beria arrived alone that he was angry with the leader, and soon the rest of the family were brought to the capital forcibly. The security chief Vlasic was ordered to "bring to Moscow every living thing that is in the family of Beria," which he performed with thorough precision, delivering a new address not only his wife and son, but also grandmothers, deaf-mute aunt and 2 cats.
Sergo Lavrent'evich settled with his family in a family house on Mikheyevsky the street and went to the Moscow school number 175. When you have finished 10 classes, the young man went to work in radio engineering NKVD central laboratory.
When the war began, the leadership of Raykom Komsomol issued Sergo recommendations for entering intelligence. There, for 3 months, he mastered the specialty of radio engineering and went to the existing troops in the rank of lieutenant. Soon the young officer's account was the fulfillment of several responsible tasks, for example, participation in operations in Kurdistan and Iran.
A year later, Sergo Beria returned to Moscow and became a student of the Military Academy of Communications, which did not interfere with the military authorities from time to time to call it for other secret orders. For the responsible service, the young man was awarded the Order of the "Red Star" and the Medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus". At the Graduate course, Sergo developed a graduation project of the rocket management system, which the Commission appreciated on perfectly and recommended for implementation.
The science
In 1947, Beria, completing the institute, received the place of deputy chief designer Bureau of Sat No. 1 MV. His educational developments went into business: on the basis of the drawings, a group of specialists created the Z-25 anti-aircraft missile system "Berkut".
The Bureau was of institutions working in secrecy: the staff delivered and taken by special buses, talk to them, as well as navigate through the corridors in the workplace, they have been banned, and experts had special passes and were considered "special contingent". The name itself, according to rumors, got an ironic decoding - "Sat -" Son of Beria "," that's just those who wanted to repeat this joke in all a few.
Over the years of work, the organization of Sergo Lavrentievich has created a new weapon project - the Comet system, for which he received the Stalinist Prize and Order of Lenin. In 1948, he defended his dissertation, and in 1952 - doctoral.
After the death of Stalin, the scientist, together with other comrades, the leader fell into opal. Sergo with his mother was locked in the dacha near Moscow, and then arrested. 1954 The son of Beria met in a single-year-old prison chamber - he was charged with the organization of a counter-revolutionary conspiracy aimed at the overthrow of the Soviet power and the reconstruction of capitalism.
Soon there was a decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU to deprive Sergo Lavrent'evich title of Stalin Prize, scientific and military ranks (at the time of his arrest, he was promoted to colonel). At the WAK meeting, they declared that both dissertations do not contain personal developments of the scientist, and are the fruit of the joint work of a group of other engineers and calculations.
In November 1954, Sergo Beria was sent to an administrative link, retaining, however, the possibility of work on the military defense specialty. To him, together with Nino Timauraz, issued documents on the name of Gegechkin (Mother's name) to hide their relationship with Stalin's accomplice. Sergo settled in Sverdlovsk and the next 10 years worked as a senior engineer under the closer observation of the investigating authorities.
In 1964 he became seriously ill mother Sergo, and he, by the time the re-who became an eminent scientist, was allowed to move to Kiev. There Beria joined the organization now known as the State Enterprise Research Institute "Quantum", where he stayed until 1988. Later the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences invited him to the position of chief designer in the new Department of Physical Problems.
Beria's son repeatedly offered to leave the country, but he never took advantage of any opportunity, considering it a betrayal of the memory of his father. Moreover, Sergo preferred to serve the home country and to the ruling elite itself is never associated with.
In 1990-1999, Sergo Lavrent'evich was scientific director and chief designer of the Kiev Research Institute "Comet". In the period of perestroika in the framework of conversion projects, he created new materials for oil and gas pipelines, fuel tanks. From this organization, and it was carried out on retirement.
Personal life
In the biography of Beria appears only one marriage - Marfa Maximovna Peshkova, granddaughter of Maxim Gorky. Judging from the photos, in their youth they were a beautiful couple: both tall, with delicate features, and their children were also very good-looking.
Marital union was preceded by a serious hobby. Sergo Beria was the first love of Stalin's daughter - Svetlana Alliluyeva. They attended the same school, and a tall, slender brunette won the heart of a young girl. Parents react to what is happening in different ways: according to rumors, Stalin was not against their union, and Beria very afraid so closely communicate with high-level family and advised his son to stay away from Alliluyeva.
To the relief of his father, youthful love Sergo quickly cooled, and he chose to marry another - beautiful Martha, but Svetlana has long suffered because of failed relationships. Being married, she even tried to dilute it with his wife, but by that time had no feelings other than irritation from Serge did not cause.
This story is featured in the TV series "Svetlana" was released in theaters in 2018. The film is about the life of the daughter of the leader and her love interest. Young Beria it played Karen Galstyan.
Martha Peshkova scientist bore three children - son Sergei and daughters Nina and Hope. When Lavrent'evich Sergo was in exile in Sverdlovsk, his wife filed for divorce. According to her, the reason was the betrayal of her husband.
Later, the graceful son moved to his father to Kiev. Now Sergey is married, works by a radio engineer-electron-made radio engineer. Nina's eldest daughter - an artist, graduated from the Stroganov school and moved to Finland to her husband, Hope became art historian and lives in Moscow.
About his father all his life Sergo responded respectful. From the last name Beria, he rejected reluctantly and returned it at the first opportunity. According to the memoirs of the Son, Lawrence Beria was a versatile gifted man: he was fond of architecture and painted perfectly, having passed his hobbies of Sergo. He treated with love and softness, trying to instill hardworking and independence.
A special perturbation of his son caused the image of the Beria-Rica, Slutric and Brutal to Women of Man created by propaganda. He did not deny the extramarital hobbies of Pavlovich's Lavrenting - he sometimes shared with an adult son with details of his personal life, but did not seek to condemn them.
"The father was not involved," Sergo told in an interview. "But who of men at least once in his life allowed himself such a weakness?" It is just as gently as he appreciated the other parties to the parent activity: "I accused him in all earthly sins, the same Khrushchev, for example, have much more sins."By the end of the life, he fought for the restoration of the good name of the Father. Sergo wrote the book "My Father - Lavrentity Beria" in the genre of memoirs, where he not only recalls the warm moments associated with the family, but also discovers some unknown pages of domestic history. Later 2 continuations came out: "The Son is responsible for the Father" and "in the corridors of the Stalinist power."
Death
Sergey Beria died in 75 years in Kiev on November 11, 2000. Despite his merits in the field of military industry, most Russian media went around this event by the party.
The cause of death, presumably the disease of the heart. The grave of the famous designer is located on a bike cemetery.
Bibliography
- 1994 - "My Father - Lavrenty Beria"
- 1998 - "Cruel Age: Kremlin Secrets"
- 2002 - "My Father Beria. In the corridors of the Stalinist power "
- 2013 - "My father of Lawrence Beria. Son for father answers "