Lavrentiy Fomich Tsanava (Russian: ????????? ????? ??????; Georgian: ???????? ??????; born Lavrentiy Janjghava Russian: ????????? ??????????; Georgian: ???????? ????????, ; 9 August 1900 – 12 October 1955) was a Soviet politician who served as the head of the Committee for State Security of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (KGB) from 1941 until 1951.
A close confidant of Lavrentiy Beria, and likewise an ethnic Mingrelian, he was arrested after the death of Joseph Stalin and died in prison awaiting a trial.