Ketskhoveli, Lado

Born in the village of Tkviavi (according to other sources, in the village of Tlia ) of the Gori district of the Tiflis province in the family of a priest. He joined the revolutionary movement in the 1890s as a student of the Tiflis Orthodox Theological Seminary . In December 1893 , he was expelled from the seminary for leading a student strike; he was forbidden to live in Tiflis . To continue his studies in 1894 , Ketskhoveli left for Kiev , where he entered a theological seminary. He lived in the house number 25 on the street. Borichev Tok , on the facade of which a memorial plaque was installed (in 2014 it was broken). He took part in the work of local social-democratic circles. In April 1896 , he was arrested and expelled from the school, and after a three-month imprisonment he was expelled to his homeland under the supervision of the police for a period of two years.

Hiding from the supervision of the police, in September 1897 , Ketskhoveli moved to Tiflis and joined the Georgian social-democratic organization Mesame-dasi . Working as a manager in a printing house, he studied printing and became one of the organizers of the underground party printing houses. He led a mass agitation among the workers of the city. At the end of 1899 , he organized a strike of the workers of the Tiflis horse ride, which ended with the satisfaction of the workers' demands.

He organized, together with Alexander Tsulukidze and Iosif Dzhugashvili, the newspaper "Struggle" (" Brdzola ").

In January 1900 , by decision of the steering group of the Tiflis organization of the RSDLP, Ketskhoveli was sent to Baku to unite local Social Democratic circles and create an underground printing press. At the end of 1901 , he became one of the founders of the first Baku Committee of the RSDLP and launched agitation among railway workers and oil workers. In 1901 he created the illegal printing house “Nina” . Despite a brilliant conspiracy, in September 1902 , by order of the captain Runech, Ketskhoveli was arrested. In a secret report dated August 10, 1903, addressed to the Tiflis gendarme department on the work of Comrade Ketskhoveli:

“The accused Vladimir Ketskhoveli ... was revealed that he was the main organizer of the secret printing press that printed almost all the proclamations and other revolutionary publications that had been distributed prior to Ketskhoveli’s arrest, that is, until September 1902, at various times in the areas of the Tiflissa, Kutaisi and Baku provinces. Moreover, the same inquiry Ketskhoveli ... revealed that, together with some of the accused, he printed proclamations to the troops in his secret printing house, with the aim of calling the troops for obvious disobedience and rebellion, which proclamations were also found to be the most widely distributed troops.

... Ketskhoveli, thanks to his extensive revolutionary connections and acquaintances, under other names, with false passports ... managed to organize such a complex and risky venture as a secret printing house, operating for almost two years, part of which has not yet been left detected.

First, Ketskhoveli was kept in a Baku prison, then he was transferred to Metekhsky castle . Refused to cooperate with the investigation. He fought against cruel prison orders, organized strikes of prisoners. On August 17 (30), 1903, Lado Ketskhoveli was killed in the cell by a jailer through a window.

In 1936, a monument to Ketskhoveli (sculptor V. Topuridze) was erected in the Communards garden in Tbilisi. Loris-Melikovskaya Street in Tbilisi from 1922 to 1986 was named Ketskhoveli (now Lado Gudiashvili Street ).

In Baku, Verkhnyaya Priyutskaya street during the years of Soviet power was renamed in honor of Lado Ketskhoveli, after the collapse of the USSR it was named in honor of the academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR, Shamil Abduragim oglu Azizbekov .

In 1937, Kiev Street was renamed in honor of Lado Ketskhoveli for a short time, then called Gershuni Street (also known as Malovladimirskaya, Stolypinskaya, Chkalova, now Oles Gonchar Street ), and after it was named after two years Chkalov, the name “moved” ( until 1984) to another Kiev street, Vozdvizhenskaya Street , and then (until 2018 ^[1] ) to Vozdvizhensky Lane.

The streets in Krasnoyarsk , Ufa and Astrakhan are named after Lado Ketskhoveli.

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