Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

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Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR საქართველოს სსრ-ის უმაღლესი საბჭო (Georgian) Верховный Совет Грузинской ССР[1] (Russian)
Georgian SSR (1938-1990)
Emblem of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Type
Type	Supreme Soviet[2]
History
Established	1938
Disbanded	1990
Preceded by	All-Georgian Congress of Soviets
Succeeded by	Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia
Leadership
Chairman	Irakli Abashidze (last)
Chairman of the Presidium	Givi Gumbaridze (last)
Elections
Last election	1990
Meeting place
Supreme Soviet building, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

The Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR (Georgian: საქართველოს სსრ-ის უმაღლესი საბჭო, sakartvelos ssr-is umaghlesi sabch’o; Russian: Верховный Совет Грузинской ССР, romanized: Verkhovnyy Sovet Gruzinskoy SSR) was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution) of the Georgian SSR from 1938 to 1990.^[3]

The Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR was preceded by the All-Georgian Congress of Soviets which operated from 1922 to 1937. The Supreme Soviet was a unicameral institution and it consisted of 250 deputies (440 deputies before 1990). Deputies served five-year terms, but this was changed to four-year terms in 1978. The first multiparty elections were held on October 28, 1990, during the 1990 Georgian Supreme Soviet election. This was the first time that the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR began to exercise state power. For most of its history, the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR was dominated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Georgia.

• 1st Convocation (1938–1946)
• 2nd Convocation (1947–1950)
• 3rd Convocation (1951–1954)
• 4th Convocation (1955–1959)
• 5th Convocation (1959–1962)
• 6th Convocation (1963–1966)
• 7th Convocation (1967–1970)
• 8th Convocation (1971–1974)
• 9th Convocation (1975–1979)
• 10th Convocation (1980–1984)
• 11th Convocation (1985–1989)
• 12th Convocation (1990–1992), as the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia

No.	Picture	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party
Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet
1		Joseph Kochlamazashvili (1906–1969)	8 July 1938	24 March 1947	CPSU
2		Vasily Gogua (1908–1967)	26 March 1947	26 March 1948	CPSU
3		Archil Gigoshvili (1907–1969)	26 March 1948	18 April 1951	CPSU
4		Mikhail Lelashvili (1910-?)	18 April 1951	6 April 1952	CPSU
5		Givi Javakhishvili (1912–1985)	6 April 1952	15 April 1953	CPSU
6		Archil Georgadze (1896-?)	15 April 1953	1954	CPSU
7		Victor Kupradze (1903–1985)	1954	26 April 1963	CPSU
8		Rafael Dvali (1909–1985)	26 April 1963	12 July 1971	CPSU
9		Irakli Abashidze (1909–1992)	12 July 1971	14 November 1990	CPSU

No.	Picture	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party
Chairmen of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
1		Filipp Makharadze (1868–1941)	10 July 1938	10 December 1941	CPSU
2		Georgy Sturua (1884–1956)	3 January 1942	26 March 1948	CPSU
3		Vasily Gogua (1908–1967)	26 March 1948	6 April 1952	CPSU
4		Zakhary Chkhubianishvili (1903-?)	6 April 1952	15 April 1953	CPSU
5		Vladimir Tskhovrebashvili (1905–1977)	15 April 1953	29 October 1953	CPSU
6		Miron Chubinidze (1905–1980)	29 October 1953	17 April 1959	CPSU
7		Giorgi Dzotsenidze (1910–1976)	18 April 1959	26 January 1976	CPSU
8		Pavel Gilashvili (1918–1994)	26 January 1976	29 March 1989	CPSU
9		Otar Circassia (1933–2004)	29 March 1989	17 November 1989	CPSU
10		Givi Gumbaridze (born 1945)	17 November 1989	14 November 1990	CPSU

• Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• Supreme Soviet
• Georgian SSR