Career
Beslan Ardzinba is a former Mayor of Pitsunda, Abkhazia. In 1961, he entered high school in the village of Duripsh in the Gudauta District. From 1972 until 1974, Ardzinba served in the Soviet army.
Between 1975, he entered the Institute for Subtropical Agriculture in Sukhumi, graduating in 1981.
In 1981, Beslan Ardzinba started work as foreman of a farm in Duripsh. He became Deputy Chairman in 1989 and Chairman in 1991.
Between 1997 and 2006, Ardzinba was Director of Operations of the Gudauta forestry agency. Mayor of Pitsunda
In October 2006, Ardzinba was appointed Mayor of Pitsunda.
On 8 February 2007, the People"s Assembly of Abkhazia granted Pitsunda town-status, whenceforth its mayor would no longer be appointed by the Governor of Gagra District, but instead directly by the President of Abkhazia.
In the February 2011 Town Council election, Ardzinba was re-elected and subsequently re-appointed as Mayor by President Bagapsh. Following the May 2014 Revolution and the election of Raul Khajimba as President, on 28 October 2014 he replaced Ardzinba as Mayor with Chingis Bigvava. On 20 September 2007, an anti-tank grenade was fired from an RPG-26 launcher at Beslan Ardzinba"s Mercedes-Benz East-220 while it was driving down the coastal road near the village of Blabyrkhua, Gudauta District.
On 16 May 2012, in the course of the investigation in the on Alexander Ankvab, the Prosecutor General also indicted Pavel Ardzinba for having organised the two attempts on the life of Ardzinba.
