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Georgians in Russia

Ethnic Georgians in Russia (Georgian: ქართველები რუსეთში, romanized: kartvelebi rusetshi; Russian: Грузины в России, romanized: Gruziny v Rossii) number 112,765, according to the 2021 Russian Census.^[1]

Notable Georgians in Russia[edit]

• Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Pyotr Bagrationi, general of the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic War
• Nikolai Baratov, Imperial Russian Army general during World War I
• Lavrenty Beria, bolshevik and a Soviet politician
• Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist
• Sergo Ordzhonikidze, bolshevik and a Soviet politician
• Keti Topuria, singer
• George Balanchine, ballet choreographer
• Roman Bagrationi, Imperial Russian Army general
• Pavel Tsitsianov, Imperial Russian Army General
• Boris Akunin, writer
• Marlen Khutsiev, filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain.
• Otar Iosseliani, film maker.
• Bulat Okudzhava, poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter
• Zurab Sotkilava, a Georgian operatic tenor and People's Artist of the USSR recipient.
• Nikolay Tsiskaridze, ballet dancer who had been a member of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years (1992–2013).
• Georgiy Daneliya, film director and screenwriter.
• Mikheil Chiaureli, actor, film director and screenwriter.
• Zurab Tsereteli, painter, sculptor and architect known for large-scale and at times controversial monuments.
• Konstantin Meladze, composer and producer
• Grigory Leps, singer-songwriter
• Oleg Basilashvili, actor and a political figure in the former Soviet Union and Russia. People's Artist of the USSR (1984).
• Otar Kushanashvili, music journalist and broadcaster who describes himself as "anti-publicist".
• Tamara Gverdtsiteli, singer, actress and composer, People's Artist of Ingushetia, Georgia (since 1991) and Russia (since 2004).
• Soso Pavliashvili, singer
• Mikhail Kalatozov, Soviet film director
• Sofiko Chiaureli, Soviet actress
• Lidiya Vertinskaya, Soviet and Russian actress and artist.
• Alexander Chavchavadze, poet and general in the Russian empire.

See also[edit]

• Georgia–Russia relations
• Russians in Georgia
• Georgians in Ukraine

References[edit]

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