Background
GIKALO, Nikolay was born on March 8, 1897 in Odessa.
GIKALO, Nikolay was born on March 8, 1897 in Odessa.
1915 graduate Tiflis military medical oderlies school.
1918 chairman, Groznyy Soviet. Commander. Red Army units in Groznyy. Leader, partisan detachment.
During the campaign against Denikin’s troops in Northern Caucasus group commander, insurgent forces in Tersk Oblast. From 1919 member, Caucasian Kray Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. Commander and military comissar, Terek Oblast military forces and deputy chairman, Terek Oblast Executive Committee.
1922-1924 secretary, Gorsk Oblast Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. 1924-1926 head, Department of Agitation and Propaganda and member, Northeastern Bureau, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1926-1932 secretary, North-Caucasian Kray All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee.
First secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Uzbek and Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Azerbaydzhan Then worked for Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1932-1937 first secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Belorussian.
From 1934 candidate member, Central Committee, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Communist Party member from 1917.