Arrest of Lavrentiy Beria

Date: June 26, 1953 • Location: Zamoskvorech’ye, Russian Federation

Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was a Soviet politician and one of the longest-serving and most influential of Joseph Stalin's secret police chiefs, serving as head of the NKVD from 1938 to 1945 during the country's involvement in the Second World War.