Background
Givi Javakhishvili was born on December 18, 1912 in Tbilisi in the family of prominent doctor Dimitri Javakhishvili and Anna Magalashvili.
Givi Javakhishvili was born on December 18, 1912 in Tbilisi in the family of prominent doctor Dimitri Javakhishvili and Anna Magalashvili.
In 1934 he graduated Transcaucasian Industrial Institute (now Georgian Technical University) with qualification of Engineer-Geologist.
From 1934 to 1952 worked on different positions in local Government and Communist Party structures. From 1953-1975 he was a Chairman of the Commission of the Protection of Georgian Language. In 1958 he was a head of Georgian delegation to World Fair Exposition in Brussels, Belgium and in 1967 in Montreal, Canada.
In 1961 Givi Javakhishvili was heading the delegation of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in Moscow at Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union where he gave the famous speech demanding the removal of Joseph Stalin from Kremlin Mausoleum of Moscow.
By his direct initiative many high profile buildings were built in Georgian capital Tbilisi, such as State Philharmonic Hall and the Palace of Sport. He inaugurated an opening of Tbilisi Metro in 1966 which had become the fourth underground rail system in the Soviet Union.
He also hosted high profile foreign guests in Tbilisi, such as Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Queen of Denmark Margrethe II, French President Georges Pompidou, Shah of Iran Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and many other prominent figures of the 20th Century. He died on November 10, 1985 in Tbilisi.
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From 1952 he served as Deputy Mayor of the Georgian Capital Tbilisi and same year was promoted to Mayor of Tbilisi, from 1953 he was Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1953-1975- Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Prime Minister), Member of the Parliament of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, elected several times, member of the Bureau of Central Committee. During his 22 years (the longest period in the Georgian history) chairing Georgian Government Givi Javakhishvili was a member of several official delegations of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic to European Countries, United States of America, Canada and Turkey.