Kandid Charkviani

Kandid (Candide) Charkviani
კანდიდ ჩარკვიანი
Charkviani (right) with Mikhail Kalinin, 1944
First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party
In office
31 August 1938 – 2 April 1952
Preceded byLavrenti Beria
Succeeded byAkaki Mgeladze
Personal details
Born1907
Tsageri, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Died13 September 1994 (aged 86–87)
Tbilisi, Georgia
NationalitySoviet Union, Georgian
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

Kandid Charkviani (Georgian: კანდიდ ჩარკვიანი, Russian: Кандид Несторович Чарквиани; 1907 – 13 September 1994[1]) was a Georgian party and government official, and First Secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia from 1938 to 1952.[2]

  1. ^ კანდიდ ჩარკვიანი. ბიოგრაფიული ლექსიკონი, საქართველოს პარლამენტის ეროვნული ბიბლიოთეკა.
  2. ^ Mikaberidze, Alexander, Candide Charkviani from the Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.