Education
Born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia, Orjonikidze graduated from the Moscow State University with a degree in philology in 1965.
Born in Tbilisi, the capital of then-Soviet Georgia, Orjonikidze graduated from the Moscow State University with a degree in philology in 1965.
In 1976, she was appointed the director of Leonidze Museum of Georgian Literature, a position she held until 1982 and again from 1989 to 1990 and from 1991 to 2010. After Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union, she was elected to the parliament for Tbilisi"s Saburtalo district from 1992 to 1995. Orjonikidze published several collections of her poetry and prose.
She died after a long illness in Tbilisi at the age of 71.
In 1989, Orjonikidze was a member of the special commission investigating the actions of the Soviet military against the pro-independence demonstrations in Georgia on April 9, 1989.
