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unusual facts about Georgian SSR



Dimitri Gvindadze

Born in Tbilisi, then-Soviet Georgia, Gvindadze graduated from the Tbilisi State Technical University with a degree in civil engineering in 1995.

Elguja Gvazava

Born in Ochamchira, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, Gvazava graduated Sukhumi Pedagogical Institute with a degree in biology in 1974 and continued his postgraduate training at the Institute of Medical Genetics in Moscow from 1976 to 1981.

Turkish–Armenian War

The succeeding Treaty of Kars, signed by the representatives of Azerbaijan SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, and the GNAT, ceded Adjara to Soviet Georgia in exchange for the Kars territory (today the Turkish provinces of Kars, Iğdır, and Ardahan).

Vazha Lortkipanidze

In 1983-1986, he was second and then first secretary of Central Committee of Georgian Komsomol during Eduard Shevardnadze's tenure as the First Secretary of Georgian SSR.


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Givi Javakhishvili

In 1961 Givi Javakhishvili was heading the delegation of Georgian SSR in Moscow at Congress of the CPSU where he gave the famous speech demanding the removal of Joseph Stalin from Kremlin Mausoleum of Moscow.

Irakli Charkviani

His father, the journalist and diplomat Gela Charkviani was Georgia’s former ambassador to the United Kingdom, and grandfather Candide Charkviani was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Georgian SSR Communist Party from 1938 to 1952.

Kote Makharadze

He began his sports career as a basketball player and led the junior national team of Georgian SSR to the USSR Championship in 1945.

Mzhavanadze

Vasil Mzhavanadze (1902–1988), Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR in 1953–1972