Promoted to major general in 1940, he commanded the 72nd Mountain Rifle Division during the Battle of Uman in World War II.

Abramidze was born to a peasant family on 19 March 1901 in Vani, Kutais Governorate and graduated from the village school in 1914.

[1] Conscripted into the Red Army on 27 April 1923, he was sent to the Separate Artillery Battalion of the Georgian Rifle Division at Tbilisi.

During the latter, his division became part of the 15th Army and fought in attempts to relieve the Soviet troops in the Lemetti pocket.

[4] Reinstated in the Red Army and placed at the disposal of the Personnel Directorate on 31 December, Abramidze completed the Improvement Course for Rifle Division Commanders at the Frunze Military Academy between March 1946 and January 1947.