Gotsiridze, Victor Davidovich

Born in 1910 in the village of Hotevi, Rachinsky district, Kutaisi province (now the Ambrolauri municipality of the region of Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo-Svaneti of Georgia ) in a peasant family. In 1926 I went to study at the workers' school in Moscow, where his elder brother Illarion Gotsiridze was already working. He studied and worked in the factory; knowing only a few words in Russian, he learned the language so much that later he himself began to help lagging students. After working at the Moscow Automobile Institute, he entered the Road Construction Faculty. At the 5th year, a volunteer went to the construction of the Moscow Metro. After graduating from the institute in 1934, he came to the Red Gate mine as a shift engineer. In 1934-1937, he worked on the construction of the Moscow Metro.

In 1937, together with his wife Daria and daughter Irina, he returned to Tbilisi. Having received the post of chief engineer in the department of education of the Tbilglorispolkom, V. D. Gotsiridze began to be engaged in the construction, arrangement and expansion of schools.

During the Great Patriotic War, he was appointed senior assistant to the head of the military information department of the Transcaucasian Railway. The duties of the transportation group included ensuring the reliable transportation of military equipment, manpower, weapons, evacuees, food, and fuel.

In 1941—1946, he served in the headquarters of the Transcaucasian Front, after the war - in the Transcaucasian Railway Administration.

In 1952, Gotsiridze began working as the first deputy of the construction of the Tbilisi metro. However, in 1953, the project was canceled. In various instances, he defended the idea of ​​resuming the construction of the metro in Tbilisi.

Since 1957, he worked as the head of the TbilisiTelStroy department (hereafter Tbilmetrostroy ^[1] . When it was opened, 21 metro stations were opened in Tbilisi (all existing but two, and the main structures of these two stations were erected in Soviet times) and 27 were laid km of lines. Under the direction of V. D. Gotsiridze, motorways, railway and automobile tunnels, hydraulic structures, underground storage facilities for wine, vegetables and fruits, Metekh tunnels in Tbilisi, a significant part of the Kura Embankment, were also built Institute of Physics, subsurface seismic laboratory of the Institute of Geophysics, the administrative building and the underground railway post office, the first subways.

He was the head of work on the creation of the complex of the Novoafon cave , including the Novoafon cave railway .

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 28, 1980, V. D. Gotsiridze was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Sickle and Hammer gold medal.

Siblings:

• Gotsiridze, Ilya (Illarion) Davidovich (1897–1968) - Soviet state and economic figure. General Director of the 1st Rank Movement.
• Gotsiridze, Mikhail Davidovich (1905-1993) - Soviet industrial leader, director of the Dzerzhinsky plant named after Y. M. Sverdlov.

• After Gotsiridze’s death in 1995, the Delisi metro station was renamed after him (Viktor Gotsiridze). However, in 2007 she was returned to the original name. Metro builders and daughter V. Gotsiridze sent a letter to the mayor of the capital George Ugulava asking to perpetuate his memory again. In 2011, in memory of the head of the metrostroy, another station was renamed on another line - Gotsiridze (formerly Elektrodepo).

• Hero of Socialist Labor (01/28/1980)
• 2 Orders of Lenin (1966, 1980)
• Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (1985)
• Medal "For Military Merit" (1943)
• Winner of the USSR State Prize (1977)
• Freeman of Tbilisi (1988)

• Gotsiridze, Victor Davidovich (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ."
• Next Gotsiridze Station // Tbilisi Week
• An article in the newspaper "Evening Tbilisi" (2010) (not available link)
• Metropolitan - Gotsiridze Victor Davidovich // Opklare.ru