Jikia Vladimir Gavrilovich

Genus. 09/19/1910 in the city of Zugdidi, Kutaisi province, in the family of a priest. Since 1913, a student at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Petersburg University. Member of the RSDLP. Since 1918 in the Red Army: commissar of the combined detachment of cadets, assistant commandant of the Peter and Paul Fortress, head of military educational institutions and deputy commander of the air defense forces of the Petrograd Military District, district military commissar. Awarded the Order of the Red Banner and an honorary weapon. In 1922, People's Commissar for Military Affairs of Georgia. Since 1922 - student of electrical and mechanical engineering. faculty of PPI. Since 1924, Deputy Chief Engineer of Volkhovstroy. After graduating from the institute, he was vice-president of the All-Union Chamber of Weights and Measures, head of the Zakhydroelectrostroy trust and the construction of the Rioni hydroelectric power station. In 1937, he was arrested and sentenced by the Supreme Commissariat of the USSR Armed Forces to VMN.