Elguja Amashukeli

He designed subway stations, created memorials and monuments in Georgia.

Elguja Amashukeli authored the icons with strong national identity in monumental urban sculpture.

He served as secretary of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1984-89), and was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1988).

He was the  laureate of state awards of the USSR and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria.

[2] Elguja Amashukeli died on March 10, 2002, and is buried in the Didube Pantheon Cemetery in Tbilisi.