Zurab Lavrentievich Sotkilava (Russian: Зураб Лаврентьевич Соткилава, Georgian: ზურაბ სოტკილავა; 12 March 1937 – 18 September 2017) was a Georgian/Soviet operatic tenor.

In 1956 he became captain of the Georgia national team, and two years later he joined Dynamo Tbilisi.

Between 1965 and 1974 Sotkilava was a soloist of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre (named after Zakaria Paliashvili).

After six years he became chairman of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and was a member of the Bologna Academy of Music, at which point he became known for his singing of Giuseppe Verdi's works.

[4] In 2015, he was diagnosed with a malignant pancreatic tumor; he died in 2017, at age 80,[5] and was survived by his wife, Eliso Turmanidze, and his two daughters.