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Vakhtang Kikabidze
Vakhtang Konstantines dze Kikabidze ( ka, ვახტანგ კონსტანტინეს ძე კიკაბიძე; 19 July 1938 – 15 January 2023), also known as Buba ( ka, ბუბა) was a Soviet and Georgian actor, singer-screenwriter, producer, composer and politician who served in the Parliament of Georgia from 2020 until his death. Personal life Vakhtang Kikabidze was born on 19 July 1938 in Tbilisi, the then-capital of Soviet Georgia. His father Konstantin was born into a noble family in Kartli, while his mother was Manana Bagration-Davitashvili, a descendant of King Alexander I of Kakheti. At just 4 years old, he lost his father, who went missing during the 1942 Battle of the Kerch Peninsula. From 1959 to 1965, he studied at the Tbilisi State University, with second courses in 1961–1963 at the Institute of Foreign Languages of Tbilisi. Vakhtang Kikabidze was married to Irina Kebadze until her death in 2021. Together, they had one son, Konstant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Georgia
The Parliament of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს პარლამენტი, tr) is the supreme national legislature of Georgia. It is a unicameral parliament, currently consisting of 150 members elected through fully proportional election. The current convocation of the Georgian Parliament is 11th. All members of the Parliament are elected for four years on the basis of universal suffrage. The Constitution of Georgia grants the Parliament of Georgia a legislative power, which is partially devolved to the legislatures of the autonomous republics of Adjara and Abkhazia. History The idea of limiting royal power and creating a parliamentary-type body of government was conceived among the aristocrats and citizens in the 12th century Kingdom of Georgia, during the reign of Queen Tamar, the first Georgian female monarch. In the view of Queen Tamar's oppositionists and their leader, Qutlu Arslan, the first Georgian Parliament was to be formed of two " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgi Daneliya
Georgiy Nikolozis dze Daneliya, : (25 August 19304 April 2019) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1989 and a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1997. Early life Georgiy Daneliya was born in Tbilisi into a Georgian family. His father Nikolai Dmitrievich Danelia (1902–1981) came from peasants. He moved to Moscow following the October Revolution, finished the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering and joined Mosmetrostroy where he spent the rest of his life working as an engineer and a manager at different levels.''Georgiy Daneliya (2006)''. A Passenger Without a Ticket. — Moscow: Eksmo, 416 pages Georgiy's mother Maria Ivlianovna Anjaparidze (1905–1980) belonged to a noble Anjaparidze family known since the 13th century and recognized by the Russian Empire in 1880. She worked as a film director, a second unit director and an assistant director at the Tbilisi Film Studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Square (Moscow)
Star Square (), Square-alley in the center of Moscow in the Tverskoy District near Moskvoretskaya Embankment. Description Alley is located in the center of Moscow, on the side of the Zaryadye. Modeled on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame" and on the idea of its instigators must be the most prominent figures of contemporary Russian popular culture. Stars on the Star Square * Mark Bernes - 1993 * Leonid Utyosov - 1993 * Vladimir Vysotsky - 1993 * Klavdiya Shulzhenko - 1993 * Lidia Ruslanova - 1993 * Izabella Yurieva - 1993 * Vadim Kozin - 1993 * Viktor Tsoi - 1993 * Boris Brunov - 1997 * Yuri Antonov - 1997 * Irina Ponarovskaya - 1997 * Makhmud Esambayev - 1997 * Valery Leontiev - 1998 * Alexander Tsfasman - 1998 * Nikita Bogoslovsky - 1998 * Edita Piekha - 1998 * Alexander Vertinsky - 1998 * Vladimir Vinokur - 1998 * Vyacheslav Dobrynin - 1998 * Gelena Velikanova - 1998 * Igor Krutoy - 1998 * Nikolai Slichenko - 1998 * Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi - 1998 * Mikhail Tanich - 1998 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TASS Is Authorized To Declare
''TASS Is Authorized to Declare...'' (, translit. ''TASS upolnomochen zayavit...'') is a 1984 Soviet spy miniseries directed by Vladimir Fokin. The series is set in the Cold War era and portrays a struggle between Soviet and American intelligence agencies. It is based on a novel by the same name by Yulian Semyonov (the author of cult spy series ''Seventeen Moments of Spring''). ''Seventeen Moments'' star Vyacheslav Tikhonov played KGB General Konstantinov, the protagonist of the "TASS..." series.Taisiya Belousova Козлы отпущения/ref> Original film music score was composed by Eduard Artemyev as a blend of progressive rock and electronic music. Plot ''Trianon'' (Boris Klyuyev), a willing mole agent for the Americans, is providing his CIA handlers in Moscow with information on Soviet supplies to the fictional African state of Nagonia which he obtains through his high-positioned expert job. KGB counterintelligence painstakingly identifies and neutralizes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tupolev Tu-144
The Tupolev Tu-144 (; NATO reporting name: Charger) is a Soviet supersonic airliner, supersonic passenger airliner designed by Tupolev in operation from 1968 to 1999. The Tu-144 was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft with its prototype's maiden flight from Zhukovsky International Airport, Zhukovsky Airport on 31 December 1968, two months before the British-French Concorde. The Tu-144 was a product of the Tupolev Design Bureau, an OKB headed by aeronautics pioneer Aleksey Tupolev, and 16 aircraft were manufactured by the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association in Voronezh. The Tu-144 conducted 102 commercial flights, of which only 55 carried passengers, at an average service altitude of and cruised at a speed of around (Mach number, Mach 2). The Tu-144 first went supersonic on 5 June 1969, four months before Concorde, and on 26 May 1970 became the world's first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. Reliability and developmental issues restricted the vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimino
''Mimino'' (, ka, მიმინო, ) is a 1977 comedy-drama film by Soviet director Georgiy Daneliya produced by Mosfilm and Gruziya-film, starring Vakhtang Kikabidze and Frunzik Mkrtchyan. Anatoliy Petritskiy served as the film's Director of Photography. The Soviet era comedy won the 1977 Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. Plot Valiko Mizandari, nicknamed Mimino ( ka, მიმინო; ), is a Georgian bush pilot flying Mi-2 helicopters between small villages and his hometown Telavi. However, when he reunites with his former flight academy classmate Valera, a Tu-144 pilot in Tbilisi, he meets stewardess Larisa, who catches his eye. After being punished for unauthorized transport of a cow for an old woman in the village, he asks for recertification and a transfer, hoping to fly large airliners around the world. Mimino goes to Moscow, leaving his life and family behind, and gets a hotel room with boisterous Armenian truck driver Ruben "Rubik" Hac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Grieve
''Don't Grieve'' (; ka, არ იდარდო!) is a 1969 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Georgiy Daneliya. The film is loosely based on the novel "My uncle Benjamen" by French writer Claude Tillier. In the end of the 19th century, a young doctor, Benjamen Glonti, returns to a small village in his native Georgia after finishing his medical studies in St. Petersburg. A series of comic events unfold around him. Plot Set in late 19th-century Georgia during its time in the Russian Empire, the story follows Benjamin Glonti, a carefree young doctor recently returned home after studying in St. Petersburg. Instead of repaying his debts or tending to patients, Benjamin indulges in revelry with his friends while his sister Sofiko supports their large family. Determined to straighten him out, Sofiko arranges for him to meet Mary, the daughter of a wealthy local doctor, though Mary is also being courted by the arrogant Lieutenant Alex Ishkneli. However, Benjamin remains unintereste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nani Bregvadze And Vakhtang Kikabidze's Rehearsal At Laima Rendez Vous Jurmala 2017
Nani may refer to: People *Alla Nani (born 1969), Indian politician *Nanai people of north Asia *Nani (actor) (born 1984), Indian actor *Nani (footballer) (born 1986), Portuguese footballer * Antonio Nani (1842–1929), Maltese classical composer *Gianluca Nani (born 1962), former technical director at West Ham United * Kesineni Nani (born 1966), Indian politician *Kodali Nani, Indian politician *Nanabhoy Palkhivala (1920–2002), Indian jurist and economist *Nani Roma (born 1972) a Spanish rally racing driver *Nani Alapai (1874–1928), Hawaiian soprano vocalist * Nani family of Venice, members of which owned various palazzi: **Palazzo Barbarigo Nani Mocenigo **Palazzo Bernardo Nani **Palazzo Erizzo Nani Mocenigo **Palazzo Nani *Perni Nani, Indian politician Places *Nani, Afghanistan *Ananiv, a town in Ukraine with the archaic Romanian name of Other uses *Nani Pelekai, a character from the 2002 animated Disney film, ''Lilo & Stitch'', and its franchise *''Naani'', 2004 Indian fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Meladze
Valerian Shotayevich Meladze (born 23 June 1965), known professionally as Valery Meladze, is a Georgian singer and a Meritorious Artist of Russia. He is the brother of composer and producer Konstantin Meladze, who writes songs for him. Biography Early life Was born on 23 June 1965 in Batumi in the family of Shota and Nelly Meladze, who were engineers. Has a brother, Konstantin (1963), and a sister, Liana (1968). He was an impatient and disobedient child, while his brother was very quiet. He went to music school and learned to play the piano. In school he did not study well. Since his parents, his grandmother and his grandfather were engineers, he decided to enter the Engineering Institute. entered the Nikolayev Shipbuilding Institute in Ukraine to study mechanical engineering of ship power plants. In 1985, Valeriy's brother started playing keyboard in the group "April". After some time, Valeriy started to sing in this group as a back-up vocalist, but this group broke up. Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russo-Georgian War
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia,Occasionally, the war is also referred to by other names, such as the Five-Day War and August War. was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region. It is regarded as the first European war of the 21st century. Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union in April 1991, following a referendum during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. However, fighting (1991–92) between Georgia and Ossetian separatists resulted in parts of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast being under the ''de facto'' control of Russian-backed but internationally unrecognised separatists. In 1992, a joint peacekeeping force of Georgian, Russian, and Ossetian troops was stationed in the territory. A similar stalemate developed in the region of Abkhazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
