The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia was the highest unicameral legislative body in Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 elected in the first democratic, multiparty elections in the Caucasus

Caucasus

The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...

 in October 1990 while the country was still part of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. The Council presided over the declaration of Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union in April 1991. The legislature split into rivaling factions and became defunct after a violent coup d’etat ousted President

President of Georgia

The President of Georgia is the head of state, supreme commander-in-chief and holder of the highest office within the Government of Georgia. Executive power is split between the President and the Prime Minister, who is the head of government...

 Zviad Gamsakhurdia

Zviad Gamsakhurdia

Zviad Gamsakhurdia was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era...

 in January 1992. A pro-Gamsakhurdia faction managed to convene for a few times in exile and again in Georgia during Gamsakhurdia’s failed attempt

Georgian Civil War

The Georgian Civil War consisted of inter-ethnic and intranational conflicts in the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia , as well as the violent military coup d'etat of December 21, 1991 - January 6, 1992 against the first democratically elected President of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia and his...

 to regain power later in 1993. The Supreme Council was succeeded – after a brief parliamentary vacuum filled by the rule of the post-coup Military Council and then the State Council – by the Parliament of Georgia

Parliament of Georgia

Parliament of Georgia is the supreme legislature of Georgia. It is unicameral and has 150 members, known as deputies, from which 75 members are proportional representatives and 75 are elected through single-member district plurality system, representing their constituencies...

 elected in October 1992.

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia was preceded by the Supreme Soviet

Supreme Soviet

The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union was the Supreme Soviet in the Soviet Union and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments...

 of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (July 1938–November 1990), which in its turn was a successor of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (February 1922–July 1938).

Chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

Name	Period
Ioseb Kochlamazashvili	July 7, 1938–March 24, 1947
Vasil Gogua	March 26, 1947–March 26, 1948
Archil Gigoshvili	March 26, 1948–April 18, 1951
Mikhail Lelashvili	April 18, 1951–April 6, 1952
Givi Javakhishvili Givi Javakhishvili Givi Javakhishvili was a Georgian Politician who served as Prime Minister of Georgia from 1953 to 1975.-Early life and education:...	April 6, 1952–April 15, 1953
Archil Georgadze	April 15, 1953–1954
Viktor Kupradze	1954–April 26, 1963
Rapiel Dvali	April 26, 1963–July 12, 1971
Irakli Abashidze Irakli Abashidze Irakli Abashidze was a Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician.Born in Khoni, Georgia , he graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1931 and attended the 1st Congress of the USSR Union of Writers, 1934, when socialist realism was laid down as the cultural orthodoxy...	July 12, 1971–November 14, 1990

Chairmen of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia

Name	Period
Zviad Gamsakhurdia Zviad Gamsakhurdia Zviad Gamsakhurdia was a dissident, scientist and writer, who became the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era...	November 14, 1990–April 14, 1991
Akaki Asatiani	April 14, 1991–January 2, 1992

Chairmen of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

Name	Period
Filipp Makharadze Filipp Makharadze Filipp Makaradze was a Bolshevik revolutionary and government official.-Life:...	July 10, 1938–December 10, 1941
Giorgi Sturua	January 1, 1942–March 26, 1948
Vasil Gogua	March 26, 1948–April 6, 1952
Zakaria Chkhubiashvili	April 6, 1952–April 15, 1953
Vladimer Tskhovrebashvili	April 15, 1953–October 29, 1953
Miron Chubinidze	October 29, 1953–April 17, 1959
Giorgi Dzotsenidze	April 18, 1959–January 26, 1976
Pavle Gilashvili	January 26, 1976–March 29, 1989
Otar Cherkezia	March 29, 1989–November 17, 1989
Givi Gumbaridze	November 17, 1989–November 14, 1990

Sources

• World Statesmen.org