Vissarion Gugushvili

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Vissarion Gugushvili

Vissarion Guguschwili ( Georgian ბესარიონ გუგუშვილი * 6. May 1945 in Vladikavkaz , formerly Ordzhonikidze , North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , RSFSR , USSR ) is a Georgian politician and former statesman. He was one of the leading figures of the Georgian independence movement in the late 1980s and Prime Minister of Georgia (1991-1992) after independence.

biography

Gugushvili was born into the family of a scholar. In the mid-1960s he studied "Orientkunde (History of Turkey )" at the State University of Tbilisi . In 1970 he obtained a further degree in "English Language and Literature" from the Tbilisi Institute for Foreign Languages. In 1971 he was awarded the academic degree "Candidate in Economics".

From 1973 Guguschwili worked in the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (today Georgian National Academy of Sciences ) in the field of social sciences. Here he rose from head of the economics department to deputy director of the Center for Research Promotion.

In December 1990 Gugushvili was appointed Deputy Minister of Culture of the Georgian SSR and in March 1991 President of the State Film Society of the Republic of Georgia.

With the resignation of Tengis Sigua on August 26, 1991, Gugushvili moved to the top of the government as Prime Minister of Georgia. After the military coup and the fall of Zviad Gamsakhurdia in early January 1992, he fled the country and tried again during the Georgian Civil War (1991–1993) on the side of Gamsakhurdia to seize power again. After the assassination of the ousted president and the suppression of the uprising, Gugushvili first fled to Chechnya , where he served as economic advisor to Jokhar Dudayev between 1992 and 1994 . In 1995 he went into exile via Lithuania to Finland , where he was granted political asylum. Since then, Gugushvili has lived in the city of Vantaa and has been working on the development of computer characters for Georgian scripts .

In an interview in July 2018, Gugushvili expressed his desire to return to Georgia again.

Literature and individual references

  1. ↑ Alexander Mikaberidze: Historical Dictionary of Georgia . 2nd Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-4422-4145-9 , pp. 348 .
  2. ↑ Виссарион Паатович ГУГУШВИЛИ. Retrieved March 15, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Татьяна ТЮМЕНЕВА: Виссарион Гугушвили: “Моя мечта - вернуться в Грузию”. July 22, 2018, Retrieved March 15, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Gugushvili, Vissarion
ALTERNATIVE NAMES გუგუშვილი, ბესარიონ (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian politician and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vladikavkaz , formerly Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, RSFSR, USSR