Shalva Eliava
Shalva Zurabovich Eliava | |
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| შალვა ელიავა | |
Shalva Eliava in 1923 | |
| Born | September 30, 1883 |
| Died | December 3, 1937 |
| Education | Kutaisi classical gymnasium |
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.