[2] He graduated Petrograd Polytechnic University[3] before joining the Communist Party in 1916 and after the February and later October Revolution he was made deputy chairman of his local soviet in Dzhikhaishi near Trapezund.

[2] In May 1919 he was sent along with Anastas Mikoyan, to Baku in the recently independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic as one of the leaders of the Bolshevik Faction in a Worker's Strike against the Musavat Party.

After escaping imprisonment alongside Mikoyan,[4] Gogoberidze was wounded in a shooting that took place in a café in central Baku that killed the two younger men he was eating dinner with.

[5] The exact cause of the shooting is still a matter of debate but contemporary leftist reports alleged it was an assassination plot by the Musavat Party.

After the tempo of these programs was criticized by Stalin in an article in Pravda, [10] Kakhiani and his faction were replaced by a new group led by Vissarion Lominadze.