 During the 1937 Great Purges, he was summoned by Lavrenti Beria to Tbilisi to be interrogated as a "politically unreliable person".During the examination, he was subjected to extensive tortures and died on his 56th birthday on September 2, 1937.Lordkipanidze's family learned of his death only in the late 1950s, but the place of his burial remains unknown to this day.