Alexi Inauri

Aleksi Inauri (; , Aleksey Nikolayevich Inauri) (May 12, 1908 – June 23, 1993) was a Soviet commander who headed the Georgian KGB (Committee for State Security) for over 30 years (1954–1988) and made it one of the most effective of the KGB's regional Soviet branches. He ended his career as a colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Early life and career Born in Gori (then under the Russian Empire), Inauri was a worker until volunteering, in 1926, in the Red Army and graduated from a Cavalry School for the North Caucasian Mountainous Nationalities in Krasnodar in 1931. From April 1931, he commanded a cavalry platoon and then a squadron of the 16th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Cavalry Division of the Ukrainian Military District. He became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1932. From October 1936, Inauri was put in charge of the regimental schools for the same division, later in 1938 as assistant commander for the commanding officer. Before the outbreak of war, Inauri commanded the same division's 99th Cavalry Regiment as a major in the Kiev Special Military District. From 1984 to 1989, Inauri was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.