Mikhail Porfirevich Georgadze is a famous Soviet party leader. Born on February 28 (new style March 12), 1912 in Central Georgia, in the small town of Chiatura. At that time, this part of Transcaucasia was part of the Russian Empire. It went down in history primarily as one of the leaders of the Communist Party. For 26 years, Mikhail Georgadze was secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (from 1957 to 1982).
A person born before the revolution, having survived the Civil and Patriotic War, important historical milestones of the country's development, the change of rulers from Stalin to Brezhnev - held high and responsible government posts throughout his life, received government awards, and was repeatedly a deputy of party congresses.
Until 1982 came ...
Originally from Imereti
The town of Chiatura is located in foothill Imereti, the central part of the then Tiflis province.
There were mines where manganese was mined. Chiatura miners represented almost the only proletariat of Georgia. The city became a stronghold of the Bolshevik party.
Probably, the birthplace of the future communist leader played an important role in the development of his party career. Mikhail Georgadze, secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the future, determined his choice of profession 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.
Tbilisi period
The Communist Party of the Soviet state paid great attention to the southern republics. Georgia specialized mainly in subtropical crops. High rates of fulfillment of the five-year plan of 1946-1950 were an incentive for the further growth of agriculture.
In 1952, to the post of deputy. M.P. Georgadze is appointed Minister of Agriculture and the Department of Supply of Agricultural Products of the Georgian SSR. A certain role in this decision was played by the fact that he was a native of Georgia, which meant he had to know the state of affairs “from within”. Career quickly went up. Two years later, Georgadze headed the Ministry of Agriculture of the GSSR. 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, meetings in defense of the "bright" name of Joseph Stalin took place in Gori, Tbilisi and Sukhumi. They were triggered by a report by N.S. Khrushchev at a closed 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 give Stalin an insult. At the request of members of the government, Marshal of the People's Republic of China, Zhu De, a participant in the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU, spoke on Lenin Square . From the march to the monument to Stalin, he refused. The Secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia Mikhail Georgadze went to the monument with two Chinese members of the delegation, one of whom made a speech. Speeches from Georgadze were not heard.
Moscow period
Not even a year had passed before the Georgian leader was recalled to Moscow. Since February 1956, Mikhail Georgadze - Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1941, in the capital, he graduated from MIMESH with a diploma of an engineer in mechanization and electrification of the agricultural industry. After graduation, he worked for 10 years in the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, and then in the Ministry, where he made a career from an ordinary engineer to the head of the department. In 1942 he joined the ranks of the CPSU.
Mikhail Georgadze is secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, whose biography is not full of many facts. But she left her historical mark on paper.
For 26 years, for displacements and appointments from the head of the cabinet of the Council of Ministers, comrade Kosygin, to the Minister of Culture Comrade Furtseva in all government decrees and decrees under the resolution of L.I. Brezhnev was signed: M.P. Georgadze - Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
End of an era
With the death of Brezhnev, an entire era ended. With the advent of Andropov in the country, the struggle against corruption and embezzlement began. The entire apparatus of the ministry and the chiefs of the commanders were arrested.
The list of dignitaries 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 had sat in the Kremlin since the time of Stalin, turned out to be a great lover of luxury and art. In the historical chronicles of Igor Bunich , a whole list of the riches found in the hiding places of Georgadze's cottage is given: whole piles of jewelry, diamonds and diamonds, 100 gold bars (20 kg each), $ 2 million and 40 million rubles, valuable paintings by famous artists, among which canvas by Leonardo da Vinci.
Investigators were most surprised by the toilet bowls found in the house made of the highest grade gold.
Leaving life
In November 23, 1982, Georgadze committed suicide. 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, hurriedly left for Tbilisi.
Pogreben M.P. Georgadze in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery. On the wall of the house, on the street. Spiridonovka 18, where the statesman lived, a memorial plaque was installed.