The People's Guard of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს სახალხო გვარდია) was a Social-Democrat-dominated volunteer force of Georgian former soldiers and civilians, active during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 5 September 1917 to 18 March 1921.
It consisted of 2,000 full-time members and 18 field battalions (300–800 soldiers in each) drafted on a territorial basis.
12 December) 1917, when it seized a former Imperial Russian army arsenal and artillery depot in Tiflis which had hitherto been under the control of units sympathetic to the Bolsheviks.
In the words of a Guard commander, Valiko Jugheli, the operation "determined the fate of the revolution on a Transcaucasian scale.
From 1920 to 1921, the Guard published its illustrated periodical sakhalkho gvardieli (სახალხო გვარდიელი, "People's Guardsman") twice a month.