Gia Karkarashvili biography
Born on October 30, Karkarashvili was born on October 31 by nationality - Georgian. Until the eighth grade, he studied at the 2nd school of railway workers in Tbilisi, after which he entered the Tbilisi Artillery School, which he graduated in the year as a junior lieutenant. He served in units of the Soviet Army, stationed in Germany and the Azerbaijan Autonomous Region, Nakhichevan G.
at the beginning of the year G. Karkarashvili quit the ranks of the Soviet Army in the rank of captain. In the year, George Karkarashvili became one of the first combat commanders of the Georgian army. He served in the National Guard Tengiz Kitovani, took part in the overthrow of President Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, after which he became the commandant of the capital of Georgia in the late January of the year, when the military-political situation was very aggravated in Abkhazia and the authorities of the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic, headed by the chairman of the parliament V.
Ardzinba, were going to explain about the independence of Abkhazia, G. Karkarashvili in the number of the detachment in the number The military, with the support of military equipment, without a single shot, went through the whole of Abkhazia to the PSOU River and occupied strategic points of the main cities of the Abkhaz Autonomous Republic. The announcement of the independence of Abkhazia was postponed indefinitely and the troops returned to the places of constant deployment.
After these events, George Karkarashvili was awarded the title of Colonel. In March, in the Zugdid district of the city of Karkarashvili and 40 troops of his battalion were arrested by supporters of the overthrown President of Georgia Z. after a while they were all released without any conditions. In gg. Karkarashvili was the commander of the 4th battalion of the special forces of the National Guard "White Eagle", the commander of the 1st Brigade, the head of the Department of the National Guard.
He repeatedly participated in hostilities. In May, in February, Karkarashvili resigned, with the rank of Major General. Then he moved with his family to Moscow and, in the city of Karkarashvili was supposed to fly to Moscow, found and neutralized a powerful explosive device. On the morning of January 25, in Moscow, George Karkarashvili and his former deputy general Paatu Datuashvili, an armed attack was committed.
At the entrance of the hostel of the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, two unknown people fired several times at the ex-minister and his deputy from Makarov's pistols. Karkarashvili was seriously wounded by three bullets one of them fell into the head, and P. Datuashvili was killed in place. Since then, George Karkarashvili has been chained to a wheelchair.
In the city, after returning to his homeland, with the city of Karkarashvili he was a deputy of the Georgian Parliament of the third convocation, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on defense and security. In the year, after the "Revolution of Roses", he abandoned the deputy mandate. Author: Caucasian knot.