Nikolay Gikalo
Николай Гикало
Gikalo in 1935
First Secretary of the Uzbek Communist Party
In office April 1929 – June 1929
Preceded by	Kuprian Kirkizh
Succeeded by	Isaak Zelensky
First Secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
In office August 1929 – June 1930
Preceded by	Levon Mirzoyan
Succeeded by	Vladimir Polonsky
First Secretary of the Byelorussian Communist Party
In office January 1932 – March 1937
Preceded by	Konstantin Gey
Succeeded by	Vasily Sharangovich
First Secretary of the Kharkiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
In office March 1937 – October 1937
Personal details
Born	(1897-03-08)March 8, 1897 Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	April 25, 1938(1938-04-25) (aged 41) Moscow, USSR
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1917–1937)

Nikolay Fyodorovich Gikalo (Russian: Никола́й Фёдорович Гика́ло; March 8, 1897 – April 25, 1938) was a Ukrainian Soviet revolutionary and statesman.

He was born in Odessa into a Ukrainian peasant family. From 1915 he served in the Russian Imperial Army, in 1917 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks). He commanded the Red Army in the fight against the White Army in the Northern Caucasus. He was first secretary of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan from April 1929 to June 11, 1929, first secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan from 1929 to August 1930, first secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from January 18, 1932, to March 18, 1937. During the Great Purge, Gikalo was arrested, accused of plotting against the Soviet state, sentenced to death and executed on April 25, 1938. He was exonerated posthumously in 1955.^[1]

A city in Chechnya is named after him.

• Azerbaijan Communist Party

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• Гикало Николай Федорович at www.hrono.ru

v t e Leaders of Azerbaijan since 1918
Azerbaijan Democratic Republic	Heads of Parliament (1918-1920) Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh Alimardan Topchubashov
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1991)	First secretaries of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party (1920-1991) Mirza Davud Huseynov (1920) Viktor Naneyshvily (1920) Elena Stasova (1920) Vladimir Dumbadze (1920) Grigory Kaminsky (1920–1921) Sergei Kirov (1921–1925) Ruhulla Akhundov (1925–1926) Levon Mirzoyan (1926–1929) Nikolai Gikalo (1929–1930) Vladimir Polonsky (1930–1933) Ruben Rubenov (1933) Mir Jafar Baghirov (1933–1953) Mir Teymur Yagubov (1953–1954) Imam Mustafayev (1954–1959) Vali Akhundov (1959–1969) Heydar Aliyev (1969–1982) Kamran Baghirov (1982–1988) Abdurrahman Vazirov (1988–1990) Ayaz Mutallibov (1990–1991)
Republic of Azerbaijan (1991-present)	Presidents of Azerbaijan Republic (1991-) Ayaz Mutallibov Yagub Mammadova Ayaz Mutallibov Isa Gambara Abulfaz Elchibey Heydar Aliyev Ilham Aliyev
(a) Denotes acting

v t e Political office-holders in Belarus since 1918
	Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1919) Sierada Losik* Krečeŭski
	First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991) Knorin Osatkin-Vladimirsky Krinitsky Goloded Knorin Gamarnik Gey Gikalo Sharangovich Yakovlev* Volkov Ponomarenko Gusarov Patolichev Mazurov Masherov Kiselyov Slyunkov Sokolov Malofeyev
	Chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus (1991–1994) Shushkevich Kuznetsov* Hryb
/	President of Belarus (since 1994) Lukashenko (since 1994; disputed since 2020) Tsikhanouskaya (disputed since 2020)
* acting † contested

v t e Leaders of Uzbekistan
Uzbek SSR	Vladimir Ivanov Kuprian Kirkizh Nikolai Gikalo Isaak Zelensky Akmal Ikramov Pyotr Yakovlev* Usman Yusupov Sirodzh Nurutdinov Amin Niyazov Nuritdin Mukhitdinov Sobir Kamolov Sharof Rashidov Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev Rafiq Nishonov Islam Karimov
Uzbekistan	Islam Karimov Nigmatilla Yuldashev* Shavkat Mirziyoyev
* denotes acting