Mikhail Porfirievich Georgadze is secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. A short excursion into the biography.

Mikhail Porfirievich Georgadze is a famous Soviet party leader. He was born on February 28 (in a new style on March 12) in 1912 in Central Georgia, in the small town of Chiatura. At that time this part of Transcaucasia was a part of the Russian Empire. In history he first of all entered as one of the leaders of the Communist Party. For 26 years, Mikhail Georgadze - Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (from 1957 to 1982).

The man who was born before the revolution, survived the Civil and Domestic Wars, important historical milestones of the country's development, the change of rulers from Stalin to Brezhnev - throughout his life he held high and responsible state posts, received government awards, and was repeatedly a deputy of party congresses.

Until 1982 came ...

Originally from Imeretia

The town of Chiatura is located in the foothill of Imeretia, the central part of the then Tiflis province.

There were mines here, where manganese was mined. Chiatur miners were almost the only proletariat of Georgia. The city became the mainstay of the Bolshevik party.

Probably, the birthplace of the future communist leader played an important role in the development of his party career. The choice of profession Mikhail Georgadze, secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the future, determined from a young age, enrolling in the mechanization department of an agricultural technical school. He worked as a tractor driver, and then as a foreman of a tractor brigade.

The Tbilisi period

The Communist Party of the Soviet state paid much attention to the southern republics. Georgia specialized mainly in subtropical cultures. High indicators of the fulfillment of the five-year plan of 1946-1950 stimulated the further rise of agriculture.

In 1952, to the post of deputy. The Minister of Agriculture and the Supply Department of Agricultural Products of the Georgian SSR appoint MP Georgadze. A certain role in this decision was played by the fact that he was a native of Georgia, which means he should have known the state of affairs "from within". Career quickly went up. Two years later, Georgadze headed the Ministry of Agriculture of the GSPC. In 1954 he became the second secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia, after Mzhavanadze the second state person in the republic.

In the spring of 1956, rallies were held in Gori, Tbilisi and Sukhumi in defense of the "bright" name of Joseph Stalin. They were caused by the report of NS. Khrushchev at a private meeting dedicated to exposing the "cult of personality."

Several hundred thousand people were aggressive, demanding that the head of the government of the republic speak to the people. Comrade Mzhanavadze arrived on the square, talked for a long time, promising to support the people and not to give Stalin insult. At the request of members of the government, Marshal Zhu De, who was vacationing in Georgia and a participant in the 20th Congress of the CPSU, spoke at Lenin Square. From the procession to the monument to Stalin, he refused. The monument was sent by the 2nd secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia Mikhail Georgadze with two Chinese members of the delegation, one of whom said the speech. Speeches from Georgadze were not heard.

Moscow period

In less than a year, the Georgian leader was called back to Moscow. Since February 1956, Mikhail Georgadze - Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In Moscow in 1941 he graduated from MIMESH, having received the diploma of engineer of mechanization and electrification of agricultural branch. After graduation he worked 10 years in the People's Commissariat for Agriculture, and then in the ministry, where he made a career from a rank-and-file engineer to the head of the department. In 1942 he joined the ranks of the CPSU.

Mikhail Georgadze - Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, whose biography is not abounding in many facts. But it left its historical trace on paper.

For 26 years, for displacements and appointments to posts, from the head of the cabinet of the Council of Ministers, comrade. Kosygin, before the Minister of Culture Comrade. Furtseva in all state decrees and decrees under the resolution of L.I. Brezhnev was signed: M.P. Georgadze is secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

End of an era

With the death of Brezhnev ended a whole era. With the coming to power of Andropov in the country, the fight against corruption and embezzlement began. The whole apparatus of the ministry, chiefs of the commanders were arrested.

A list of high-ranking officials convicted of bribery was replenished with new names. The "Georgadze case" appeared. The secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, who has been in the Kremlin since Stalin's time, turned out to be a great lover of luxury and arts. In the historical chronicles of Igor Bunich there is a list of the riches found in the caches of the Georgadze dacha: whole piles of jewelry, diamonds and diamonds, 100 gold bars (20 kg each), 2 million dollars and 40 million rubles, valuable paintings by famous artists, among them Canvas by Leonardo da Vinci.

The investigators were most surprised by the toilet bowls found in the house, made of the highest grade gold.

Leaving a life

In 1982, on November 23, Georgadze committed suicide. The secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR passed away before the end of the investigation. He was 70 years old.

Soon his widow, Tatyana Ivanovna Georgadze, hastily left for Tbilisi.

Pogreben M.P. Georgadze in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery. On the wall of the house, along the street. Spiridonovka 18, where the statesman lived, a memorial plaque was installed.