Givi Gumbaridze
Givi Gumbaridze | |
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გივი გუმბარიძე | |
| First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party | |
| In office 14 April 1989 – 7 December 1990 | |
| Preceded by | Jumber Patiashvili |
| Succeeded by | Avtandil Margiani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 March 1945 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Soviet (1945–1991) and Georgian (since 1991) |
| Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Givi Gumbaridze (Georgian: გივი გუმბარიძე; Russian: Ги́ви Григо́рьевич Гумбари́дзе; born 22 March 1945) is a former Soviet and Georgian politician. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from 14 April 1989 to 7 December 1990 and as head of state of the Georgian SSR. Prior to that he had served as the head of the Georgian KGB.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Jones 2013, p. 35
References
[edit]- Jones, Stephen (2013), Georgia: A Political History Since Independence, London: I.B. Taurus, ISBN 978-1-78453-085-3
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