Mikheil Giorgadze (politician)

Mikheil Giorgadze
მიხეილ გიორგაძე
Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union
In office
1957–1982
Preceded byAlexander Gorkin
Succeeded byTengiz Menteshashvili
Personal details
Born12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1912
Zodi village, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
Died23 November 1982 (aged 90)
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
PartyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
EducationMoscow Institute of Agricultural Mechanization and Electrification
Awards
Order of Lenin (2)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Star

Mikheil Giorgadze (Georgian: მიხეილ გიორგაძე, Russian: Михаил Порфирьевич Георгадзе; 12 March [O.S. 28 February] 1912—23 November 1982) was a Georgian-Soviet politician who served as secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1957 to 1982.

Biography

He was born in 1912 in Zodi village, located in present-day Chiatura district, Georgia. In 1941 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Agricultural Mechanization and Electrification.[1]

He served as the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Georgian SSR from 1953 to 1954. In 1954 he became at Minister of Agriculture of the Georgian SSR and First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR, which he held until 1956.[2] From 1957 until the end of his life, he was Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.[3]

He died on 23 November 1982[4][5] and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.[1]

Awards

He received two Order of Lenin (in 1972[6] and 1982),[7] the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (in 1962),[8] and Order of the Red Star (1945).[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 "მიხეილ გიორგაძე (1912-1982)". nplg.gov.ge (in Georgian). Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  2. ↑ "გიორგაძე მიხეილ პორფილეს ძე". ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია (in Georgian). Vol. 3. 1978. p. 158.
  3. ↑ "გიორგაძე მიხეილ პორფილეს ძე". georgianencyclopedia.ge (in Georgian). Retrieved 2026-05-29.
  4. 1 2 "Михаил Порфирьевич Георгадзе". Pravda (in Russian). No. 329. 25 November 1982. p. 5.
  5. 1 2 "მიხეილ პორფილეს ძე გიორგაძე" (PDF). Komunisti (in Georgian). No. 272. 25 November 1982. p. 3.
  6. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР Вручение верительных грамот Заместителю Председателя Президиума Верховного Совета СССР В. П. Рубену Чрезвычайным и Полномочным Послом Мальты А. Дж. Шерри" (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR. No. 11. 15 March 1972.
  7. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении тов. Георгадзе M. орденом Ленина" (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR. No. 11. 17 March 1982.
  8. ↑ "Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О награждении тов. Георгадзе M. П. орденом Трудового Красного Знамени" (PDF). Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR. No. 11. 15 March 1962.
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