Aleksandre Mirtskhulava

Aleksandre Mirtskhulava or Aleksandr Iordanovich Mirtskhulava (Georgian: ალექსანდრე იორდანეს ძე მირცხულავა; Russian: Александр Иорданович Мирцхулава) (12 May 1911 – 9 June 2009[1]) was a Georgian politician who was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR from 14 April to 20 September 1953.

Mirtskhulava was born in the village of Khobi of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti.

In 1930, he graduated from the Pedagogical Technical School of Zugdidi.

[3] Mirtskhulava was Lavrentiy Beria's Komsomol chairman[4] and a strong supporter of Beria,[5] and when Beria briefly took power after the death of Joseph Stalin, he restored his clients who suffered during the Mingrelian affair and appointed Mirtskhulava as First Secretary of the Georgian Party.

[6] From 1953 until 1980 he held various responsible posts in the agricultural sector in Georgia.