Gennady Alamia

Gennady Shalikovich Alamia (Lomiya) (Russian: Геннадий Шаликович Аламиа (Ломия); born 24 June 1949 in Kutol, Abkhazia) is an Abkhazian politician, poet and playwright.

He is the chairman of the Social-Democratic Party of Abkhazia and secretary-general of the World Congress of the Abkhaz-Abaza People.

[2] While studying at the Literary Institute of the Writer's Union of the Soviet Union, he met his future translator and co-author Denis Chachkhalia.

During Perestroika, Alamia led Aidgylara's eponymous newspaper[3] and penned "Aiaaira", which became the national anthem of Abkhazia.

This Abkhazian biographical article is a stub.