[1] Born in Tbilisi, then-Soviet Georgia, Kobaladze served in the Soviet military from 1987 to 1989.

Kobaladze received nine bullets to the chest and survived but never managed to fully recover.

[2] Kobaladze graduated from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School in 1996 and Frunze Military Academy (Russia) in 1999.

In 2000, Colonel Kobaladze was appointed commander of land forces of the Georgian Ministry of Defense.

The judge found Kobaladze guilty of illegally keeping a firearm and hand-grenades and sentenced him of eight months in prison.