On November 29, 1917, he successfully commanded a raid on the Tiflis military arsenal guarded by the pro-Bolshevik Russian soldiers led by Stepan Shahumyan, the ethnic Armenian Bolshevik.

During his tenure, he gained a reputation of a ruthless suppressor of peasant risings in various regions of Georgia, particularly among Ossetians and other ethnic minorities.

[2] Valerian "Valiko" Jugheli and his family were evacuated from Sokhumi to Kutaisi, after the First World War broke out due to the fear of an inevitable Ottoman invasion.

Valiko Jugheli successfully completed his work called "Heavy Cross",[3] where his life in the Democratic Republic of Georgia is more informative than before.

[4] After the Soviet occupation of Georgia in 1921, Jugheli went to the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr for military education.