Giwi Javachishvili
Giwi Dschawachischwili (Georgian გივი ჯავახიშვილი; * December 18, 1912 in Tbilisi , Russian Empire , today Georgia ; † November 10, 1985 ibid) was a Georgian politician and from 1953 to 1975 Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR .
Life
Giwi Javachishvili was born as the son of the doctor Dmitri Dschawachishvili and Ana Magalashvili. In 1934 he graduated from the South Caucasian Industrial Institute as a qualified engineer geologist. From 1934 to 1952 he worked in various local and party organizations. In 1952 he was appointed Vice Mayor, and in the same year he was appointed Lord Mayor of Tbilisi. From April to September 1953 he was deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR and then until December 18, 1975 its chairman.
During his tenure, he headed the Commission for the Protection of the Georgian Language. In 1968 he was the chairman of the commission for the 800th birthday of the poet Shota Rustaveli . He was a member of the Georgian SSR and USSR High Council several times. Javakhishvili headed the Georgian delegation at an Expo twice: in Brussels in 1958 and in Montreal in 1968 .
In 1961, Javakhishvili gave a speech at the CPSU meeting in Moscow, in which he, on behalf of the Georgian delegation , demanded that the remains of Stalin be removed from his mausoleum.
On the initiative and with the support of Javakhishvili, a philharmonic hall and a sports palace were built in Tbilisi. In 1966 he opened the first metro station in Tbilisi.
During his tenure as chairman, the longest in the history of Georgia, Javakhishvili received visits from Jawaharlal Nehru , Margrethe II , Georges Pompidou , Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Fidel Castro .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Лев Балаян: Сталин и Хрущев ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian, accessed June 15, 2012)
Web links and sources
- http://harikumar.brinkster.net/BLAND/DOCTORS%20CASE_FINAL.htm THE 'DOCTORS' CASE ', AND, THE DEATH OF STALIN Bill Bland, for the Communist League (UK), London, October 1991., On 29 October 1953, a forty-one-year-old engineer and geologist, Mr. Givi D. Djavakhishvili, was elected Prime Minister of the Georgian Republic ". (DM Lang: op. Cit .; p. 264).
- http://www.az-dir.ru/Persons/46020N/30c2dd23/30c2dd23.shtml Giwi Javakhishvili (Russian)
- Article Джавахишвили Гиви Димитриевич in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- http://www.parliament.ge/files/sxdomebi/1959dep/javaxishvili.doc ჯავახიშვილი გივი დიმიტრის-ძე (Jawachishvili, Giwi Dimitris-dse) (Georgian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Javakhishvili, Giwi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | გივი ჯავახიშვილი (Georgian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi , Russian Empire , today Georgia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1985 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |