Aleksandre Mirtskhulava or Aleksandr Iordanovich Mirtskhulava (May 12, 1911 - 2009) was a Georgian

Georgians

The Georgians are an ethnic group that have originated in Georgia, where they constitute a majority of the population. Large Georgian communities are also present throughout Russia, European Union, United States, and South America....

 politician who was the First Secretary of the Communist Party

Communist party

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 of the Georgian SSR from April to September 1953.

Mirtskhulava was born in the village of Khorga in the Khobi District

Khobi District

Khobi is a district of Georgia, in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti. Its main town is Khobi.Population: 41,240 Area: 659 km²- External links :* , Statoids.com...

 of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti

Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti

Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti is a region in western Georgia which includes the historical Georgian provinces of Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti and has Zugdidi as its capital.-Geography:...

. In 1930, he graduated from the Pedagogical Technical School of Zugdidi

Zugdidi

Zugdidi is a city in the Western Georgian historical province of Samegrelo . It is situated in the north-west of that province. The city is located 318 kilometres west of Tbilisi, 30 km. from Black sea coast and 30 km. from Egrisi range. 100-110 metres above sea level. As of 2007, it had a...

. By 1931 he was a raikom secretary; he became First Secretary of the Communist Union of Mtskheta

Mtskheta

Mtskheta , one of the oldest cities of the country of Georgia , is located approximately 20 kilometers north of Tbilisi at the confluence of the Aragvi and Kura rivers. The city is now the administrative centre of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region...

 in 1933 and of Khoni

Khoni

Khoni is a town in the Western Georgian region of Imereti with the population of 11,300 . It is situated on the left bank of the Tskhenistkali River in the north-west of Imereti, close to the border with the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and 266 km west of Georgia's capital Tbilisi. The town...

 in 1935. From 1941 to 1943 he was the second secretary of the Communist Party of Abkhazia

Abkhazia

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, and from 1943 to 1947 Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Abkhazia, in effect head of the government of Abkhazia.

Mirtskhulava was Lavrenty Beria's Komsomol

Komsomol

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 boss and a strong supporter of Beria, and when Beria briefly took power after the death of Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

, he restored his clients who suffered during the Mingrelian Affair

Mingrelian Affair

The Mingrelian Affair, or Mingrelian Case was a series of criminal cases fabricated in 1951 and 1952 in order to accuse several members of the Georgian SSR Communist Party of Mingrelian extraction of secession and collaboration with the Western powers....

and appointed Mirtskhulava as First Secretary of the Georgian Party. Mirtskhulava was removed from the Central Committee bureau and expelled from the CC by a CC plenum held on September 20, 1953.

From 1953 until 1980 he held various responsible posts in the agricultural sector in Georgia.