Dzhumber Ilyich Patiashvili ( Georgian ჯუმბერ ილიას ძე პატიაშვილი ; born 1939 ) was a Georgian and Soviet politician, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia in 1985-1989.
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| cargo. ჯუმბერ ილიას ძე პატიაშვილი | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze | ||||||
| Successor | Givi G. Gumbaridze | ||||||
| Birth | August 5, 1939 (aged 80) Lagodekhi , Georgian SSR , USSR | ||||||
| The consignment | CPSU (1962-1991); Ertob association (since 2001) | ||||||
| Education | Tbilisi Agricultural Institute | ||||||
| Academic degree | candidate of agricultural sciences | ||||||
| Profession | agronomist | ||||||
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Biography
Born on August 5, 1939 [1] in the village of Lagodekhi , the administrative center of the Lagodekhi region in eastern Georgia. In 1962 he graduated from the Faculty of Agronomy of the Tbilisi Agricultural Institute , where he was secretary of the Komsomol committee. In the same year he joined the Communist Party . He graduated from graduate school, defended his thesis, receiving a degree of candidate of agricultural sciences. After the institute, he was at the Komsomol job: instructor of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of Georgia, head of the scientific youth sector, responsible organizer of the Central Committee. From 1969 he was the secretary, and in 1970 - 1973 - the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Georgia.
In 1973, he was elected first secretary of the Gori District Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia .
Since 1974 - Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia for Agriculture.
In 1985 - 1989 - First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia. In 1986, at the XXVII Congress of the CPSU, he was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU (until 1990 ).
After the events of Tbilisi in April 1989, he resigned from his post as first secretary. In 1989-1991 he worked as the general director of the Tavtavi (Kolos) research and production association in Mtskheta , and later as the director of the Yu. N. Lomouri Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture.
Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , participant in congresses of people's deputies of the USSR in 1989-1991.
In 1992 he was elected to the Parliament of Georgia. November 5, 1995 was an independent candidate in the presidential elections in Georgia. He took second place, losing to Eduard Shevardnadze (19.1% of the vote [2] ). In 2000, he again participated in the presidential election.
In November 2003, he supported the “ rose revolution ”: “when Shevardnadze resigned and the presidential elections were scheduled, I said that I would not take part in them, unlike the two previous campaigns, and I would give my vote to Mikheil Saakashvili, calling on my voters too to support him. ” Subsequently, he stated that “he made a mistake in his choice, as, in fact, most of the Georgian society” [3] .
In recent years, Patiashvili has stated that he "supports President Saakashvili’s desire to revive the economy and restore Georgia’s territorial unity." At the same time, he pointed out that “the current authorities have made a number of mistakes in domestic and foreign policy in recent years that need to be fixed” [4] .
The leader of the all-Georgian political association Ertoba (Unity), created at the end of 2001 on the basis of the parliamentary faction United Georgia. The association professes a social democratic orientation and advocates good-neighborly relations with Russia and Armenia [5] [6] .
In 2014, the book of memoirs by D. I. Patiashvili “23 years later” was published, on the basis of which the multi-part documentary television film “Kindness Comes Anyway” was soon created [7] .
Notes
- ↑ Sobchak A. Tbilisi break, or bloody Sunday of 1989. - Ch. 4. Actors and performers
- ↑ Razorenova M. Georgia in September - October 1995
- ↑ Jumber Patiashvili: Through the efforts of ideology and a falsified history of a state turned upside down, we are being replaced by a generation that does not even remember Abkhazia // Georgia and the World. - 05/22/2012
- ↑ Jumber Patiashvili urged Mikheil Saakashvili to resign (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Ertob (Unity) Party of Jumber Patiashvili
- ↑ Patiashvili said that the return of the Abkhaz and Tskhinvali regions to Georgia is impossible without the participation of Russia in this process.
- ↑ Anastasiadi V. History lessons help to avoid mistakes // www.2000.ua. 01/30/2015.