Zakaria Bakradze

Zakaria (Shakro) Bakradze (Georgian: ზაქარია (შაქრო) ბაქრაძე, Polish: Zachariasz Bakradze) (22 October 1868, in Tbilisi – 3 December 1938) was a Georgian military officer who served as a general in the Democratic Republic of Georgia and later the Polish Army.

He began his military career in the Imperial Russian army and distinguished himself during the First World War.

After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918, he joined the national army and was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Defence.

The Soviet invasion of Georgia in 1921 forced him (along with thousands of other Georgian officers) into exile in Poland, where he received further training in the Higher War School.

He then served in the Polish Army as Commander of Infantry (de facto deputy commander) of the Polish 15th Infantry Division.

Portrait of Bakradze in his Georgian military uniform