Aleksandre Mirtskhulava orAleksandr Iordanovich Mirtskhulava (Georgian:ალექსანდრე იორდანეს ძე მირცხულავა;Russian:Александр Иорданович Мирцхулава) (12 May 1911 – 9 June 2009[1]) was aGeorgian politician who was theFirst Secretary of theCommunist Party of theGeorgian SSR from 14 April to 20 September 1953.
Mirtskhulava was born in the village of Khorga (nearKhobi) ofSamegrelo-Zemo Svaneti. In 1930, he graduated from the Pedagogical Technical School ofZugdidi. By 1931 he was araikom secretary; he became First Secretary of the Communist Union ofMtskheta in 1933 and ofKhoni in 1935.[2] From 1941 to 1943 he was the second secretary of the Communist Party ofAbkhazia, and from 1943 to 1947 Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Abkhazia, in effect head of the government of Abkhazia.[3]
Mirtskhulava wasLavrentiy Beria'sKomsomol chairman[4] and a strong supporter of Beria,[5] and when Beria briefly took power after the death ofJoseph Stalin, he restored his clients who suffered during theMingrelian affair and appointed Mirtskhulava as First Secretary of the Georgian Party. Mirtskhulava was removed from the Central Committee bureau and expelled from the CC by a CC plenum held on 20 September 1953.[6]
From 1953 until 1980 he held various responsible posts in the agricultural sector in Georgia.
He died inTbilisi at the age of 98.
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