Shalva Eliava

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Shalva Zurabovich Eliava (Georgian: შალვა ელიავა; Russian: Ша́лва Зура́бович Элиа́ва, Shalva Zurabovich Eliava) (September 30, 1883 in Ganiri – December 3, 1937) was a Georgian Old Bolshevik and Soviet official who contributed to the Sovietization of Central Asia and Caucasus but fell victim to Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge.