Career
He was one of the founders of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1941). Doctor of Philological Sciences (1920), Professor (1920). Shanidze graduated from the Saint St. Petersburg University in 1909.
During his career, he was awarded:
3 Orders of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Order of the Badge of Honour
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il"ich Lenin"
Medal "Foreign Labour Valour".