Zviad Gamsakhurdia

georgia, president, independence, dissident, mtatsminda

Born Mar 31, 1939

Tbilisi, Georgia

Passed Away Dec 31, 1993 Tbilisi, Georgia

Lifespan 54 years old

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"Georgia's freedom was bought with centuries of sacrifice and will never be surrendered."

Archival Overview

First democratically elected President of Georgia, philologist, and dissident who proclaimed Georgian independence from the Soviet Union.

Biographical Record

Zviad Gamsakhurdia was a prominent scholar, translator, human rights activist, and statesman who was elected the first President of post-Soviet Georgia in May 1991.

The son of renowned novelist Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Zviad co-founded the Georgian Helsinki Group, spent years under KGB surveillance and internal exile, and authored academic works on Rustaveli and Goethe.

On April 9, 1991, he proclaimed the restoration of Georgia's independence, fulfilling a lifelong struggle for Caucasian sovereignty before being ousted in a violent military coup later that year.

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Mtatsminda Pantheon
Tbilisi, Georgia

                         GPS: 41.6961, 44.7892                    

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