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Academician, professor, engineer-hydraulic technician, Honored Builder of Georgia, and Rector of the Georgian Technical University was born in Tbilisi, on October 16, 1963.

Professional experience includes operational analysis and monitoring of capacities installed in Georgia and abroad (hydropower, hydro melioration, hydropower stations, and thermal power plants), and participation in the construction and reconstruction of various energy, civil, and industrial facilities.

Education:

1981-1983 St. V.V. Kuibyshev Faculty of Hydrotechnical Structures of Engineering Construction Institute in Moscow; 1983-1987 – Georgian Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Hydro Technics and Plumbing, engineer-hydraulic technician; 1999-2001 – Georgian Technical University, Faculty of Law, Master of Civil Law; 2005 - Georgian G. Chogovadze Institute of Energy and Energy Buildings.

Scientific Degree and Rank:

Since 2024, Honorary Doctor of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin (Republic of Poland);

Since 2024, a honorary Doctor of the Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction (Baku); since 2023, an Academician of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences;

Since 2021, an Honorary Doctor of the Armenian National University of Architecture and Construction;

Since 2021, Honorary Doctor of the Ukrainian National Aviation University;

Since 2021, a true member of the Georgian Academy of Legal Sciences;

Since 2020, an honorary Doctor of Białystok Technical University (Poland);

Since 2019, Honorary Doctor of Academician I.V. of Egiazarov Institute of Water Problems and Hydrotechnics (Republic of Armenia);

Since 2019, a true member of the Georgian Engineering Academy;

From 2011 to 2019 – a member-correspondent of Georgian Engineering Academy;

Since 2006, a true member of the Georgian Academy of Energy;

Since 2005, a member-correspondent of the Georgian Academy of Energy;

Work Experience:

Since 2024 - Associate Member of the CERN CMS Experiment;

Since 2023 - Member of the Governing Board of the Foundation of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia;

Since 2023 - Member of the Presidium of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences;

Since 2023 - Chairman of the Permanent Conference of Rectors of Georgia;

From 2022, by order N 02/30 of the President of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences - associate member of the Presidium of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences;

Since 2022 - Chairman of the Engineering, Technological, and Natural Science University Dissertation Council of the Georgian Technical University;

From 2021 to 2022 - by the decree of the President of Georgia N 01/10/01, member of the Georgian National Award Commission;

Since 2020 – the Rector of the Georgian Technical University;

Since 2020 – a member of the advisory board of San Diego State University, USA;

From 2020 – a chairman of the Editorial and Publishing Board of the Georgian Technical University;

Since 2017 - a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Regional Policy and Self-Government Committee of the Parliament of Georgia;

Since 2017 -a member of the scientific consultative council of the sectoral economy and economic policy committee of the Parliament of Georgia;

From 2017 to 2020 – the Dean of the Faculty of Construction of the Georgian Technical University;

From 2017 to 2018 – the head of the Doctoral educational program of GTU “Hydroengineering”;

From 2015 to 2017 – the acting Dean of the Faculty of Construction of GTU;

From 2013 to 2015 – the Head of the Educational Process Monitoring Department of GTU;

Since 2013 – the Professor of the Department of Hydro technics and Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Construction of GTU;

From 2012 to 2013 – an Invited specialist of the Department of Water Supply, sewerage, heat and Air Supply, and Engineering Equipment of buildings of the Faculty of Construction of GTU;

From 2006 to 2007 - an invited specialist of the Faculty of Energy and Telecommunications, Department of Heat Engineering and Hydropower of GTU;

From 2005 to 2011 – the Adviser at the Georgian Engineering Academy;

From 2002 to 2005 - Scientist-employee of the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage of GTU; From 2001 to 2004 - Deputy Minister of Heating and Energy of Georgia;

From 2001 to 2003 - Chairman of the State Examination Commission of the Hydraulic Engineering Faculty of GTU;

From 1998 to 2001 - Head of the international center promoting production and business “TEMPUS TACIS” at GTU;

From 1997 to 2001 - General Director of JSC “Mercury-92”, (Tbilisi);

From 1997 to 1998 - Deputy Head of Water Supply and Sewerage Department of GTU;

From 1994 to 1996 – a scientist collaborator at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, (contract subject) (Moscow);

From 1994 to 1996 - Chairman of JSC “Zodiac & K” Concern (business), (Moscow);

From 1993 to 1997 - Chairman of the Ltd. D.I.V.A. Board (Vienna, Austria);

From 1992 to 1994 - President of the JSC “Zodiac” (Moscow);

From 1990 to 1993 - Deputy of the General Director of the Scientific Industrial Union “Complex” (Tbilisi);

From 1986 to 1989 - Secretary of the Com Union Committee of the Faculty of Hydro technics and Plumbing of the Georgian Polytechnical Institute; Deputy Secretary of the Com Union Committee of the Georgian Polytechnical Institute; Head of the Science and Technology Department of the Tbilisi City Committee;

From 1983 to 1987 – the head of construction teams at the Construction of Enguri Hydropower Dam; From 1980 to 1983 – the worker at the city Mtskheta Industrial Complex.

David Gurgenidze’s inventions:

Patent for invention. Correlation Analyzer, 2003. №2200273; Co-authors: Suvorov A.L., Bykov Yu.P., Klimiashvili L.D.; (Russian)

A patent for an invention. Underground water receiving facility. 2022; Patent number P 2022 7361. Co-authors: D. Gurgenidze, L. Klimiashvili, G. Omsarashvili.

Editions:

Reference book - 7;

Monograph - 10;

Encyclopedic dictionary - 1 (Volume V);

Auxiliary Reference book - 8;

Scientific research articles – 77;

Awards and Bonuses

• 2023 - Award named after Ekvtime Takaishvili (on September 27, 2023, the presidium of the Georgian Culture Foundation awarded him with a bronze medal) for his contribution to the development of science and national culture;
• 2023 - Giorgi Nikoladze Medal of The Georgian Technical University;
• 2023 - Golden medal and diploma of the “Dante Alighieri Society” (the highest award of the society was presented in the head office of the “Dante Alighieri Society” in Rome, Italy) for personal contribution to the spread of the Italian language and culture in Georgia;
• 2022 - State Order of the Republic of Lithuania – “Merit to Lithuania” Knight’s Cross (awarded on February 14, 2022, according to Article 84(22) of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania, Article 4(1) of the Law on State Awards and the President Gitanas Nausėda’s Decree Nr 1K-863);
• 2019 - Honored Builder of Georgia;
• 2007 - International Foundation of Journalists “Golden Wing” prize winner, for special charitable activities and philanthropy;
• 1999 - Order of Honor (according to the Decree of the President of Georgia on December 21, 1999 N1518) for the personal contribution to the education of student youth;

Archil Frangishvili, a doctor in technical sciences, professor, and academician, was born in Tbilisi on April 13, 1961. He graduated from Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering in 1983.

  From 1983 to 1987, he was a postgraduate student at Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Department of Computer Engineering;

• a full member of the United Nations International Informatization Academy since 1994;
• a full member of the International Academy of Engineering (1995);
• a full member of the Engineering Academy of Georgia (1996);
• a corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1997);
• a full member of the Georgian Energy Academy (2004);
• a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2010);
• an academician of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (2013);

Information technology and computer engineering, modelling, and management theory of complex systems. 

  He served as acting rector of Georgian Technical University from 2008 to 2009, then as rector of the same university in 2009.

  2007 - President of the Georgian Academy of Engineering; Deputy Rector of Georgian Technical University from 2005 until 2008; President of Georgia's Emergency Energy Representative from 2002 to 2005; Professor of Computer Systems and Networks Department at Georgian Technical University since 1993; He served as the scientific head of the Georgian Technical University's scientific-research laboratory of computer and information technologies from 1992 to 2005; from 1992 to 2003, he performed as the university's deputy director for informatics, management systems, and telecommunications; from 1988 to 1992, he was the docent of the Computer Engineering Department of Georgian Technical University and director of the research laboratory;

  He worked as a junior researcher at Georgian Technical University's Research Laboratory from 1987 to 1988.

  In 2011, Georgia represented Georgia on the Financial Committee of the intergovernmental organisation "Centre for Nuclear Research" (Dubna, Russian Federation);

 He represented Georgia at the GUAM countries' Nanotechnology Development Council in 2011. He has been the leader of the nanotechnology research team at the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia since 2010;

  From 2007 to the present, he is the chairman of the Dissertation Board of Georgian Technical University's Faculty of Informatics and Management Systems; in 2006, he was a member of the American Biographical Institute's Advisory Board. 2005: Member of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia's Scientific Council; 1998–2003: Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia's Scientific Council for Energy Problems;

  He was on the scientific-expert council of Georgia's Ministry of Internal Affairs' Emergency Situations and Civil Defence Department from 1998 to 2003;

  He was the chairman of the Commercial Bank's Supervisory Board from 1999 to 2003.

  He was the general director of a joint production between Georgia and Singapore from 1992 to 1995;

  He has written almost 200 scientific works, including 20 monographs and 11 textbooks, and has been granted 20 patents.

His research focuses primarily on:

Astrophysics, space equipment construction, parallel processing of information, multi-machine systems of ship control, energy, and telecommunications.

  In 1990, he received the Georgian State Prize in Science and Technology for the creation and commercialization of microprocessor network topologies.

  He was awarded the Medal of Honour in 1996.

  He was awarded the honorary title "Outstanding Engineer of the 20th Century" by the Council of Presidents of the International Engineering Academy in 2000 for his recognised contribution to the advancement of science and technology as well as the strengthening of the international engineering community.

  For his scientific efforts, he received the Georgian Society of the History of Science medal in 2005.

  He received the Order of Merit in 2003.

  For the creation and adoption of biometric computer technologies, he received the Georgian National Prize in Science and Technology in 2012.

  18 candidate and doctoral dissertations have been successfully defended under his scientific supervision since 1993.

During his tenure as rector, various large-scale initiatives were implemented on his initiative and direct participation, including:

• The integration of 16 scientific research institutes with Georgian Technical University resulted in a significant boost to the scientific and technological capabilities of both the institutes and GTU. Additionally, the quality of research and education was enhanced. They were thought to form in dynamic, reorganised (problem-oriented) clusters. In terms of scientific results, GTU was the top-ranked university in Georgia in 2018–2019, according to Web of Science data;
• Based on the university, new scientific research institutes were created to carry out joint initiatives with the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN, Switzerland). The Centre for Nuclear Engineering actively contributes to the information technology work package processing for the ATLAS experiment at CERN. The CMS experiment detectors are being successfully upgraded and managed by the Institute for Quantum Physics and Engineering Technologies (CERN). The institute actively engages in the research for the execution of the Japan High Energy Accelerator Research Organization's (KEK) unique COMET experiment, and it is in charge of the detector system's creation and operation. For the first time in Georgia, scintillation detectors were developed and produced for the accelerator as part of this experiment;
• For the first time, the small disc structures of the collider were created by the researchers of GTU and constructed under their supervision for the ATLAS experiment;
• GTU collaborates closely with the Julich Centre for Nuclear Research (Germany). The university co-founded the Georgia-Germany scientific connection;
• The university collaborates successfully with the United Institute of Nuclear Research (Dubna);
• GTU is now a member of the international partnership DUNE (Fermilab, US), as decided by the scientific council;
• The Muskhelishvili Scientific Research Institute of GTU, in collaboration with CERN, developed a project to establish a supercomputing centre employing modern technology, create a grid system, and engage in international collaboration;
• IPOG (International Particle Physics Outreach Group) and the Government of Georgia have inked an agreement to hold CERN master classes in Georgia;
• სGTU built a fundamentally new Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Bioengineering, an International School of Design, and a Department of Logistics through international partnership (the United States, Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Australia, Portugal, and Poland). Faculty of Business Technologies, Faculty of Engineering Economics and Media Technologies, Faculty of Law and International Relations were established. Training-scientific-expert laboratories of Physics, Computer and Information Technologies, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Biomedical Engineering, Control Systems, Robotics, Construction, Bridges and Tunnels, Agro-engineering, Business Processes Engineering, Energy, Mining and Geology, Criminalistics, Media Technologies, Banking Technologies and others have been established. Virtual laboratories (fablab) were developed in several areas. Georgia's first ISO standard approved medical equipment quality control laboratory was established. A branch of the CISCO International Network Academy was established. The governments of Austria and Georgia actively participated in the purchase of a hydrotechnical laboratory complex, which has no analogues in the region. New educational programmes offering double diplomas were created. Student business incubators and accelerators were established;
• Joint educational programmes, in accordance with international standards, were designed within the Millennium Challenge Corporation project in collaboration with the University of San Diego (USA);
• Educational programmes in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Construction and electrical engineering were prepared for ABET accreditation;
• The concept of interdisciplinary development based on research has been formed in different directions;
• Great attention is paid to the matter of internationalisation of education and exchange programmes (USA, Japan,South Korea, United Kingdom, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Iraq , Iran, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Spain, China,Portugal, etc.). Leading foreign scientists give lectures and participate in collaborative research projects. About 100 international conferences have been held;
• Grants were received from the National Science Foundation of Georgia, USAID, UNDP, World Bank, DAAD, Ukrainian Science and Technology Centre, Horizon 2020, TEMPUS, Erasmus, Asian Development Bank, International Science and Technology Centre, and others;
• A unified, strong university computer network equipped with the most recent technology has been created;
• In collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the concept of Georgia's participation in the international project "Silk Road Economic Belt" was established;
• Cooperation with more than 200 partner universities and research organisations has expanded and developed;
• The notion of constructing technoparks on the foundation of GTU was developed. More than 130 economically significant breakthrough technologies were developed and ready for industrial implementation;
• Major infrastructure projects were implemented.

He’s married with two children.

email: a_prangi@gtu.ge

Email: a_prangi@gtu.ge

 Professor Archil Motsonelidze, rector of Georgian Technical University and doctor of technical sciences, was born in Kutaisi on July 25, 1945. He graduated from Tbilisi School No. 51 in 1962. In the same year, he enrolled at Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Faculty of Construction, specialising in hydrotechnical construction of river constructions and hydroelectric plants, which he completed in 1968. He graduated from the same institute's post-graduate course, the Department of the Strength of Materials and Theory of Elasticity, in 1971. Archil Motsonelidze received the degree of candidate in technical sciences in 1973 and the degree of doctor of technical sciences in 1986.

1979. Motsonelidze was an assistant at Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Department of Hydrotechnical Structures from 1972 to 1977 and the department's lead teacher from 1977 to 1979.

  He served as a docent for the Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Department of Hydrotechnical Structures from 1979 to 1980. From 1980 to 2006, he was the department's professor. Between 1980 and 1986, he served as a senior scientist and collaborator in the Georgia Scientific Research Institute for Energy and Hydrotechnical Structures' Seismic Resistance Department. Served as the vice-rector of Georgian Technical University from 1989 to 1994 (in the areas of science, evening and part-time classes, and humanitarian activities); Served as the director of Georgian Technical University's scientific research lab for industrial and natural disasters from 1991 to 1996; He led general management trainings while working as a teacher at the Georgian Technical University's faculty of general management and public administration from 1995 to 1998 as part of the TADS programme; In 2003, he was the head of the Caucasus Business School's Strategic Management Course; He was the director of the Georgian National Science Foundation from 2005 to 2006; He served as acting rector of Georgian Technical University in 2006-2007; He has served as the rector of Georgian Technical University since 2007.

  Throughout various eras, Archil Motsonelidze took part in numerous projects that were significant for the nation. In addition to the UK (South Bank University, Department of Construction Environment; University of British Columbia (Canada), Construction Department; Transform Consultants, Belfast), Germany, the United States, Belgium, and Finland, he was invited to numerous universities all over the world as an expert, professor, partner, etc.

  Archil Motsonelidze has been involved in public activities since 1991, serving on the Council of Scientific Experts of Georgia, the Nostrification Commission of Georgia, the Council for Awarding Scientific Degrees in the Field of Hydro-Construction, and the International Scientific and Technical Centre (ISTC-IISTA) coordination committee. He continues to be a member of the National Academy of Energy, a specialist of the Union of International Technical Associations (UITA-UATI) (Paris), a member of the American scientific society Sigma Xi, and a representative of Georgia on the NATO Committee "Science for Peace and Security."

 Member of the Council for the Granting of Scientific Degrees in the Construction Industry.

  Archil Mostanelidze has written 128 research publications as well as one textbook titled "Construction Management."

He received the President of Georgia's certificate of appreciation in 2005.

 Academician Professor Ramaz Khurodze, the Rector of Georgian Technical University, was born in Tbilisi on November 9, 1944. He graduated with a gold medal from Tbilisi No. 55 School in 1961 and enrolled in Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering. In 1966, he graduated with honours from the institute.

  Ramaz Khurodze began working as a scientific employee at the Georgian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Management Systems in 1966. He began postgraduate studies at the Institute of Control of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1972. He defended his dissertation for the scientific degree of candidate of technical sciences in the field of computer technology in 1975 and his thesis for the degree of doctor of technical sciences in 1997.

  He worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Management Systems of the Georgian Academy of Sciences from 1972 to 1981 after completing his postgraduate studies there. He also held the position of scientific secretary for the commission on computing techniques of the academy's praesidium. He visited the California Institute of Technology (USA) for research purposes in 1978–1979.

  He served as the head of the Institute of Management Systems' Department of Automation of Scientific Research from 1981 to 1982. He was teaching at Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering at the same time. Ramaz Khurodze has been an instructor at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia's Department of Science and Educational Institutions since 1982. In 1986–1987, he was the head of the Tbilisi Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia's Department of Science and Educational Institutions. He served as Georgia's First Deputy Minister of Higher and Secondary Special Education from 1987 to 1988 and as Georgia's Deputy Minister of Public Education from 1988 to 1991. He was named vice rector for personnel and commercial activities at Georgian Technical University in 1991. He became a docent in the Department of Automation and Telemechanics the same year. He received the title of professor in 1993.

1994. Khurodze was elected rector of Georgian Technical University by the university's Great Council in 1994. R. Khurodze was re-elected as rector of the university by the GTU Grand Council in 1998. In the same year, he received the Georgian State Prize in Science and Technology. R. Khurodze was elected a corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 2002 for his contributions to the development of science.

  He is rightly regarded as one of the founders of Georgia's scientific direction on the reliability of analogue devices in control systems. He has published nearly 60 works in this field, including 8 monographs, 5 textbooks, and 3 inventions. Khurodze is a full member of the scientific community in a number of other countries. Professor R. Khurodze was chosen as a member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, in 2003.

  Many international conferences and symposiums on energy, large systems management, applied software technologies, ecology, the implementation of the "Great Silk Road" international project, the construction of oil and gas pipelines, and other important issues were held at Georgian Technical University during R. Khurodze's rectorship. Several scientific-technical-profile publications were launched. Scientific and technical conferences of GTU professors were held under his leadership.

  Ramaz Khurodze was awarded the Order of Honour in 1998 for his remarkable personal contribution to the development of Georgian technical sciences and the education of engineering employees. The Outstanding Worker of Georgia was given "The Gold Medal of the President of Georgia" in December 2002 for his exceptional contribution to the education and training of young personnel.

• Georgian Technical University fully transitioned to a two-stage system of teaching (bachelor's and master's) and consequently changed curriculum and courses in the initial years, based on the "concept of university education"; the credit system of educational process management was established;
• The quality assurance methodology was created, and departments of new university structural units were established based on the expansion of specialties.
• The Aviation Institute of GTU has expanded its operations significantly, and it is unique in terms of its technical and material foundation, its capabilities, and the composition of its professors and teachers. The institute produced the first elite officers and pilots.
• The Humanities and Technical Sciences Faculty was established, developed, and expanded. Youth tendencies towards humanitarian professions have been identified.
• Faculty, institutes, and departments' teaching-methodical and scientific potential has been expanded and enhanced, as has the provision of computer equipment, among other things.
• Significant steps have been taken to strengthen international ties with foreign universities and research institutions. The Georgian-American Institute was founded, laying the groundwork for the training of state administration personnel.
• Under his leadership, the 75th anniversary of Georgian Technical University's founding was graciously celebrated in 1997. The highest prize of GTU was established on the occasion of the anniversary: the medal named after Giorgi Nikoladze, an outstanding Georgian scientist and renowned figure in the field of engineering.
• The Marneuli international oil-gas pipelines, Telavi, Senaki, and Ambrolauri faculties were established.
• The launch of the antenna-reflector into space, developed at GTU's Institute of Space Structures, represented a big win for Georgian engineering concepts in 1999, establishing the groundwork for the development of telecommunication infrastructure for the service of the "Great Silk Road".
• The scientific-project union "Geoengineering" was created with the initiative and active involvement of Ramaz Khurodze, and it quickly achieved global recognition. It was the winner of YSO.
• A theology department was created at Georgian Technical University on September 28, 2001, by the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitudes Ilia II, and R. Khurodze.
• The university established a sophisticated computer centre, laying the foundation for distance lea A university electronic library has been created.

Gocha Chogovadze was born in Kutaisi on January 11, 1941, into the family of Professor Giorgi Chogovadze, an eminent energy engineer and influential person. He received a gold medal from Tbilisi Secondary School No. 56 in 1958 and enrolled in Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Faculty of Automatics and Telemechanics. He demonstrated a preference for conducting scientific studies while he was a student. He graduated from the institute with honours in 1963 and attended the Department of Computer Technology for a postgraduate programme from 1964 to 1967. He successfully defended his thesis in 1968 in order to receive the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences. He undertook assistant, senior teaching, and docent duties at the Computer Engineering Department over the following years.

1976. Chogovadze established the Department of Automated Management Systems at Georgian Polytechnic Institute in 1971, and he was elected as its first head. He successfully defended his PhD thesis in 1975, and he was appointed professor in 1976. He has been in charge of the department's research laboratory since 1976.

  Professor Chogovadze made major contributions to the theory and practice of developing and calculating automated systems for the management of industrial facilities in Georgia. He founded the Georgian School of Automated Management Systems. His scientific research is in the field of computer science, specifically artificial intelligence.

  Professor G. Chogovadze's scientific findings have been compiled in 20 monographs, 6 patents, and more than 100 academic papers.

  Professor Gocha Chogovadze's textbooks influenced many generations. His monographs are reference materials for scientists and specialists in automated control systems. The students of Professor G. Chogovadze have become renowned scientists and specialists.

1986. Chogovadze was the head of the UNESCO education sector's Informatics Department in Paris, France, from 1981 until 1986.

  Between 1986 and 1988, he was the head of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia's Department of Education and Science and a deputy of Georgia's Supreme Council.

  Professor G. Chogovadze was appointed rector of Georgian Polytechnic Institute at the end of 1988. He led the country's largest hub of engineering education and science until 1994.

  The declaration of autonomy of Georgian Technical University was unanimously adopted on September 14, 1990, during an extended meeting of the Scientific Council. Humanitarian specialisations were founded during this period.

  The Aviation Institute of Georgian Technical University was established in 1992.

  Professor Gocha Chogovadze's role as a rector in connecting Georgian Technical University with the world's leading educational and scientific institutions, as well as strengthening business contacts, deserves special mention.

  Professor G. Chogovadze was elected to the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1988 as a corresponding member and praesidium member for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of science and in 1993 as a full member.

  Academician Chogovadze is the first vice president of the Union of International Technical Associations and Organisations. He was named vice president of the Georgian National Commission for UNESCO Affairs, an honorary doctor of Russian and Czech institutions, and a member of numerous international academies.

  Academician G. Chogovadze was granted a political mission of extraordinary state importance in 1994. He was appointed Georgia's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to France and the Kingdom of Spain.

  The purposeful work of Academician Gocha Chogovadze in this high diplomatic position is a result of the support for Georgia from the governments of France and the Kingdom of Spain, as well as other nations around the world, and the interest of business circles in our nation.

  The fact that Georgian Technical University joined the "Francophonie" on Academician Chogovadze's suggestions and that the French-Georgian Institute, where staff are trained in informatics and economics specialties, was established in 2002, demonstrates his international status as a scientist and political figure.

  Gocha Chogovadze, a notable Georgian scientist and statesman, has been honoured with badges and orders of honour for his dedicated service to the country and people. In 2001, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, he received the Giorgi Nikoladze medal, the university's highest honour, for his extraordinary services to Georgian Technical University.

  Academician Gocha Chogovadze passed away in 2022.

Teimuraz Loladze was born on May 24, 1920, in Kutaisi. His father, Nikoloz Loladze, died heroically in the fight for the independence of Georgia.

  He graduated from school with honours in 1937 and enrolled at the Georgian Industrial Institute's Faculty of Mechanical and Mechanical Engineering. During his time at the university, he started participating in scientific research activities. After graduating from the institute in 1942, he began working at the Tbilisi Aviation Plant as a workshop technician, foreman, workshop head, and deputy chief technologist of the plant. T. Loladze was a postgraduate student at Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology from 1946 to 1949. He successfully defended his candidate dissertation in 1950 and published a monograph, "The Formation of Bubbles During the Cutting of Metals," in 1954, which was later translated and published in Berlin. In 1958, a second monograph, "The Abrasion of Cutting Weapons," was published. He established the original method of rapid fixation of cutting operations, which has been extensively used in numerous scientific-laboratory studies all over the world. He developed cutting-material tribology. High-performance machine tools and machines for diverse purposes were developed under his supervision, as were new alloys for cutting instruments and tools, which were introduced in numerous machine-building and metallurgical industries.

  Teimuraz Loladze was the head of the Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at Georgian Technical University from 1958 until his death. During this time, he established the Georgian Scientific School of Machine-Building Technology, which gained widespread acclaim in Georgia and many other countries around the world. He has trained fifteen doctors of science and forty candidates. Loladze's scientific and research activities have yielded 180 scientific works, including nine monographs, eighty copyright certificates, and eleven patents.

1971. Loladze was dispatched by the UN to India from 1961 to 1963 and to Egypt from 1967 to 1969, where he served as the director of UNESCO programmes and the principal technical advisor at the Technological Institutes of Bombay and Mansoura. He served as the director of the design-technological scientific-research institution of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering following his return from abroad until 1971.

  Teimuraz Loladze served as the Georgian Polytechnic Institute's vice-rector for scientific activity from 1971 to 1980 and as its rector from 1981 to 1988.

  The creation of the Georgian Language and Literature Department at Georgian Polytechnic Institute and the opening of Ilia Chavchavadze's office are two highlights of Loladze's professional life. The literary almanack "Parallel" developed around this time.

  Under Teimuraz Loladze's guidance, a unique test complex of large-scale transformable structures for radio telescopes on Earth and space bases was created between 1979 and 1988. The Institute of Space Structures of Georgia was also established, evolving from a Georgian Technical University student design bureau into a renowned scientific hub. T. Loladze was also actively involved in the development of rare large-scale radio telescopes and other peculiar structures. During the same time period, space cryogenic engineering was aggressively explored under the guidance of T. Loladze, resulting in the creation of unique piston micromachines, including a liquid oxygen device with an original pump deployed aboard the reusable spacecraft "Buran." As a result, the laboratory was named the top organisation in space cryogenics in 1984. Both of these works were later awarded the Georgia State Prize.

  A number of scientific research facilities and centres were established thanks to Teimuraz Loladze's concept and active assistance. It is also important to note that the Republican Centre of Electron Microscopy, Microelectronics, and Microelectronic Technologies was established. The patent and licensing services were heavily utilised. Licences were sold in other countries. International scientific-technical collaboration has grown greatly in scope.

  For his exceptional contributions to the advancement of science, T. Loladze was awarded the title of "Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Georgia" in 1966. He was elected a corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1974 and was made a full member.

1. Loladze organised and participated in numerous international scientific congresses, symposiums, and conferences.

  He received honorary doctorates from the Higher Technical School of Kosice (Czechoslovakia) in 1978, the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) in 1982, and the National Technical University of Kharkiv (Ukraine) in 1996. He was a genuine member of the International Scientific and Research Society of Machine-Building Production Technology from 1966 until his passing and an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 1983. Teimuraz Loladze and other Georgian scientists established the Engineering Academy of Georgia in 1992. He was a member of this academy's praesidium and the academician-secretary of the Mechanical Engineering Department until the end of his life. He was on the Georgian Encyclopaedia's main editorial board for numerous years.

  As the institute's rector, T. Loladze took a special interest in the development and maintenance of its educational facilities. The basketball court, Leselidze students' sports and recreation base, the VIII educational building, the faculty of Sokhumi's educational-administrative building, and the dorms for students were all put into use. Lochini supplementary farm and production base were established; domiciles for professors and employees were extended; and areas in the Tbilisi area were allocated for the creation of individual farms. The artistic creativity and sports abilities of students achieved special success.

  Teimuraz Loladze received numerous awards and medals, including the Order of Honour (1997), for his outstanding contributions to Georgian science, technology, and higher education. On his 80th birthday, the Great Council of Georgian Technical University awarded him the Medal of Giorgi Nikoladze.

  Teimuraz Loladze passed away in June of 2000.

Archil Dzidziguri was born on August 15, 1914, in Kutaisi. In Tbilisi, he graduated from school in 1932, and in 1938, he entered the mining faculty at the Georgian Industrial Institute. He pursued postgraduate studies at the Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute in 1939–1941. In 1945, he provided his candidate dissertation, and in 1946, he was appointed as a docent.

  He oversaw the Institute of Metal and Mining of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia's Mining Department from 1952 to 1957. On the basis of his efforts, the Academy of Sciences of Georgia's Mining Department was established in 1957 (later becoming the Institute of Mining Mechanics named after G. Tsulukidze), with him serving as its first director from 1957 to 1973. He was granted the scientific degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in 1958 after successfully defending his dissertation, and he was given the title of Professor in 1960.

  Dzidziguri was elected to the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1961 as a corresponding member and as a full member in 1969.

  He received the honorary title of Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Georgia in 1964.

  He supervised the Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Department of Mining Machinery, Mine Stationary Appliances, and Transport from 1968 until 1970.

  Academician A. Dzidziguri was elected rector of Georgian Polytechnic Institute in 1973. He held this position until 1981. The institution was greatly extended and enriched throughout this time period. It has grown into one of the most powerful institutions of higher engineering education and technological science. The number of students expanded as faculties and departments were established. The VI educational building, which held the Faculty of Automation and Computing, university chairs of fundamental and humanitarian sciences, scientific research laboratories, and teaching laboratories, was constructed and placed into service. The "auto-mechanical" faculty was located in the VII educational building, which had been extensively repaired. A 16-story student residence was built near the institute. The construction of the Faculty of Energy's VIII instructional building has commenced. The foundation for the IX educational building of the Faculty of Geology and the unique mining laboratory was laid. Significant expansions were made to the teaching-laboratory bases of faculties and sites in Sukhumi, Batumi, Tskhinvali, Rustavi, Telavi, Chiatura, Tkibuli, and Poti. One of the strongest educational complexes in the Caucasus, Avchala, created a department of military training with the newest equipment.

  The institute's polyclinic was located in an entirely new building with innovative medical equipment. The mother-and-child recreation base in Kiketi began operating. The foundation was laid for the construction of a sports and wellness complex for students in Leselidze. Large-scale housing developments for professors and teachers began. It has become common for students and teachers to meet renowned writers, scientists, artists, and athletes. Labour semesters have become a vital part of student life.

  Academician Archil Dzidziguri served on the Georgian Academy of Sciences' Praesidium from 1978 to 1988 and as an advisor to the same praesidium from 1988 until his death. On his proposal, the study commission of productive forces and natural resources was founded in 1978 at the Praesidium of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, where he served as chairman until his death.

  One of the most renowned mining scientists in Georgia, Academician Dzidziguri was a specialist in stationary machinery, transport, and mining mechanics. He founded the National School of Mining Mechanics and served as its acknowledged leader. His scientific work included practically all mining-related fields.

  He received the Georgia State Prize in 1973. He received this honour again in 1993 while serving as the principal scientific advisor for "Mine-Laboratory," together with the collective of authors.

  Archil Dzidziguri's major achievement was the invention and development of Georgian technical terminology, for which he received the Giorgi Nikoladze Prize in 1974. He has been a member of the Georgian encyclopaedia's primary editorial board since its creation.

1. Dzidziguri is the author of numerous scientific works, including ten monographs, five textbooks, and over 40 patents. More than 40 doctoral and candidate dissertations have been produced and defended under his direction.

  He was chosen as a deputy of Georgia's Supreme Council.

  Dzidziguri was made an honorary citizen of Batumi in 1980.

    Archil Dzidziguri received orders and medals of the highest quality from the nation (Lenin, Red Flag of Labour, People's Friendship, and Badge of Honour) in recognition of his scientific-pedagogical, public, and state work as a scientist and a great organiser of higher education. He also received a gold medal named after Academician N. Vavilov for his outstanding contributions to the society “Tsodna”.

  Academician Archil Dzidziguri passed away in 1997.

Ioseb Buachidze was born on September 2, 1907, in Partskhanali, Kharagauli region. He completed his elementary education at Zestafoni Humanitarian Technical College in 1925. He studied at Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Mining and Metallurgical Faculty in 1929. He was already involved in scientific studies and research activities during his student years. During his geological practise in 1932–1934, he discovered and investigated the mineral water "Zghvare" reserve in Upper Imereti. I. Buachidze graduated from the institute in 1934 with the qualification of engineer-geologist and was transferred to Adjara Water Hydroelectric Power Station to head the engineering-geological group on the recommendation of Professor A. Janelidze. Following the station's completion, he oversaw the engineering-geological department of the Tbilisi Department of the Union hydropower project from 1938 until 1942.

From 1942 until 1948, he was the leader of Georgia's geological division's hydrogeological expedition. He defended his candidate's degree in geology and mineralogy on the topic of "engineering-geological conditions of the Achhesi dam" in 1946.

  In 1950, he successfully defended the degree of Doctor of Geology-Mineralogy Sciences at Moscow M. Lomonosov State University on the topic of "underground waters of Georgia" based on a detailed scientific examination of the hydrogeological material acquired by him over many years.

  The opening of the Alazani Artesian Basin in 1944 was a significant event, the first positive effects of which aided in the development of I. Buachidze and his students, who found deep locations within other artesian basins to widely disperse hydrogeological works in Iori, Shiraki, Marneuli, Kartli, Tbilisi, Chkhari-ajameti, Tskaltubo, Kolkheti, Kodori, Bzipi, Akhaltsikhe, and in other territories.

  Ioseb Buachidze has been an assistant at Georgian Polytechnic Institute since 1946. From 1949 to 1951, he was a docent before being chosen as a professor in 1951. He worked to establish the Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, which he led from 1954 to 1973.

Under the direction of I. Buachidze, a scientific-research laboratory was established in 1958 on the basis of the hydrogeology and engineering geology department of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, and he was selected as its director. The aforementioned laboratory became part of Georgian Polytechnic Institute in 1960.

  The most productive time in I. Buachidze's career was when he served as Georgian Polytechnic Institute's rector from 1958 to 1973. Since 1953, more than 40 experts have created and successfully defended their PhD and candidate theses in the areas of hydrogeology and engineering geology, all under the scientific guidance of I. Buachidze.

  In 1961, for his significant contributions to the development of science, I. Buachidze was made a corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, and in 1967 he was awarded the honorary title of "Honoured Worker of Science and Technology."

  The Georgian Academy of Sciences established the Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology scientific research sector in 1973. Ioseb Buachidze served as the institute's director from 1973 to 1990.

  The work of Ioseb Buachidze and the representatives of his scientific school in locating and expanding the Borjomi mineral water resource is particularly remarkable.

  For the first time, a map of the engineering geological zones of Georgia's territory was created directly under the direction of I. Buachidze.

  A great deal of work was conducted to study the engineering-geological conditions of Engurhesi.

  Ioseb Buachidze's participation in the engineering-geological report on the Tbilisi Metropolitan's construction is indispensable.

1. Buachidze and his students accomplished unique works for the engineering-geological study of the underwater slope of the eastern part of the Black Sea in the last decades, which served as the foundation for the development of the general scheme of the shoreline structures of Georgia's Black Sea coastline.

  Ioseb Buachidze wrote or co-wrote seven monographs in engineering geology and hydrogeology, including one in English.

  During his extensive and distinguished scientific-pedagogical career, Buachidze attended numerous international congresses, symposiums, and conferences. He coordinated the union delegations at the International Congress of Hydrogeologists in Copenhagen and the International Congress of Engineer-Geologists in Brazil. He took part in the soil mechanics conferences held in Paris and London. He received numerous invitations to deliver lectures at universities in India (Delhi), Norway (Oslo and Trondheim), and the United Kingdom (Cardiff and Swansea). I. Buachidze initiated the first-ever signing of a friendship agreement between the polytechnic institutes of Georgia and Brno.

  Within Buachidze's time as rector, the 40th anniversary of the founding of Georgian Polytechnic Institute was vastly celebrated in 1962, and the 50th anniversary in 1972.

  Ioseb Buachidze has received many orders and medals. On the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Georgian Technical University, he was awarded the Order of Honour. By the decision of the Great Council of the University, I. Buachidze was the first to be awarded the Giorgi Nikoladze medal, which demonstrates his great authority and widespread respect.

  Ioseb Buachidze received congratulations from Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze on his 95th birthday. Ioseb Buachidze passed away in 2006.

Rafiel Dvali was born in Zestafoni on April 4, 1909. He completed his secondary education in Kutaisi. He enrolled at the Polytechnic Faculty of Tbilisi State University in 1926 and graduated from the Transcaucasian Energy Institute's Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1931.

  Following his graduation from the institute, he worked as an engineer-constructor and, starting in 1932, as a constructor-researcher at the Transcaucasian Institute of Agricultural Mechanisation and Electrification for Professor K. Amirajibi, who additionally brought him to the agricultural institute as an assistant at the Faculty of Mechanisation.

1943. Dvali's initial published works were on methods for determining mobile vehicle traction. In 1937, he successfully defended his candidate's thesis, and in 1938, he was awarded the scientific title of docent. R. Dvali was drafted into the army in 1941 and served in World War II until 1943.

  From 1943 until 1946, he was a docent at Georgian Polytechnic Institute as well as the director of the agricultural mechanisation experimental station.

  Rafiel Dvali established and directed the Department of Vehicles, Transport, and Auto-Tractor Engines at Georgian Polytechnic Institute in 1946. R. Dvali successfully defended his PhD thesis in Moscow in 1948, earning him the scientific title of professor.

1. Dvali was the first to evaluate tractor performance on a slope theoretically. He is widely regarded as the creator of Georgia's scientific school in this field, which has received international acclaim.

  Rafiel Dvali's contributions to science were properly recognised, and in 1955 he was made a full member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

  From 1948 to 1963, R. Dvali oversaw Georgian Technical University's Department of Vehicles, Tractors, and Auto-Transport Engines. He served as editor of the scientific-popular magazine "Science and Technology" of the Georgian Academy of Sciences from 1950 until 1957.

  Rafiel Dvali was named director (rector) of Georgian Polytechnic Institute in 1956. He held this post until 1958. R. Dvali's contribution to the development and publication of Georgian textbooks is priceless. R. Dvali was elected vice president of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1958. He maintained this position productively until 1972.

  Together, R. Dvali and V. Makhaldiani founded the Institute of Machine Mechanics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in 1960, which Dvali led from 1972 until his death. The institute carries his name to this day.

  The instruction of engineering workers for the vehicle and transport industries was greatly aided by R. Dvali's monographs in Georgian, "Theory of the Automobile," "Theory of the Tractor," and "Mechanics of Automobile Movement." R. Dvali received the 1973 Georgia State Prize for his work "Tractor Theory."

  Academician R. Dvali, the founder of the Georgian School of Movable Machine Research, was elected as an honorary doctor of the German Academy of Sciences in 1971 and the Technical University of Dresden in 1972.

  The technical sciences were actively promoted by R. Dvali. He presided over the Tbilisi department of the Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge from 1958 to 1968, and from 1959 to 1968, he served as editor of the publication "News of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia." R. Dvali's work in the area of digesting Georgian technical terminology is priceless. He received the Georgian Academy of Sciences' G. Nikoladze Prize for the publication of technical technology.

  Rafiel Dvali was named an Honorary Scientist of Georgia in 1961. He participated in numerous international conferences on machine theory and control processes.

  He passed away in October 1985.

 Giorgi Zaridze was born in Tbilisi in 1908 into the family of a depot steam locomotive driver. Giorgi Zaridze was transferred to Leningrad in 1934 to pursue postgraduate studies at the Petrographic Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He successfully defended his candidate's thesis in 1936, and the following year he returned to Tbilisi to begin working as a senior researcher at the Geological Institute of Georgia.

  He was the dean of Tbilisi State University's Faculty of Geography and Geology from 1938 until 1939.

  He was named rector of Georgian Polytechnic Institute in 1953. In light of the tragedy perpetrated by the Soviet army in Tbilisi on March 9, 1956, during which the blood of Polytechnic Institute students was spilled, Giorgi Zaridze deemed it impossible to continue as head of the institute and was dismissed based on a personal statement.

  He established the Georgian Academy of Engineering in 1992 along with other renowned Georgian scientists, serving as its honorary president continuously until his passing.

  Giorgi Zaridze's capital monograph, "Petrography of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks of Georgia," was released in Moscow in 1961, and it drew a lot of attention from scientists.

  The "Petrology of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks" manual was released in Georgian in 1972.

1. Zaridze gave a series of lectures at the geological faculty of the University of Belgrade in 1974; in 1976, at the geological faculty of the Freiberg Mining Academy in German; and in 1979, at the Institute of Applied Mineralogy of the Munich Technical University and other European higher education institutions and scientific centres.

  As a result of Giorgi Zaridze's tireless efforts, the Republican Centre of Spectrometry and Mineralogical Materials Science was established at Georgian Polytechnic Institute in January 1985, paving the way for the development of geology and its related fields in Georgia to world-class levels.

  His book "Petrography" was published in Moscow in 1988, and "Petrology" was published in Tbilisi.

  Giorgi Zaridze, a true patriot and distinguished scientist, was honoured by the Georgian government in 1996 for his contributions to the nation. The illustrious scientist received the Giorgi Nikoladze Medal from the Grand Council of Georgian Technical University on his 90th birthday.

Giorgi Zaridze passed away in 2002. He is buried at the Saburtalo Pantheon of Public Figures.

Grigol Kometiani was born on September 15, 1905 in Kutaisi. He earned his secondary education there before continuing his studies at the Mining and Metallurgical Faculty of Georgian Polytechnic Institute, where he received his engineer-geologist degree in 1930. He began his work as a regular geologist before rising to become the leader of the geological party. G. Kometiani was named chief engineer of Georgia's Geological Division in 1937. He was the manager of the corporation "Coal Geology'' from 1947 until 1948.

1948. Kometiani was named director of Georgian Polytechnic Institute in 1948. The country was still healing its wounds from WWII. During his tenure as institute leader, he expended the most effort, talent, and skill in graduating from the first row of the institute's new teaching corps, which began in 1938. Thanks to his efforts, Tbilisi authorities donated an extra four hectares of land for the construction of the Polytechnic Institute's educational and scientific complex in 1949, although part of this territory was later used for city housing construction.

  During G. Kometiani's time as director, two academic groups of metallurgical specialties were established at the Faculty of Chemical Technology in 1949, and the Metallurgical Faculty was formed separately in 1951. It was, in fact, the faculty's revival. It is worth noting that two specialisations were established at the mining faculty in 1951: drilling and exploration of oil and gas deposits and exploitation of oil and gas deposits. In 1952, the Department of Applied Geology was divided into the Departments of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology.

1. Kometiani's name is related to several significant events in the progression of engineering education and science.

  Up until 1952, G. Kometiani served as the institute's director. He was awarded the scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences in Geology and Mineralogy in 1954 after successfully defending his thesis.

  Grigol Kometiani led the Caucasus Mineral Raw Materials Scientific-Research Institute for over thirteen years, beginning in 1957. During his tenure as director, the aforementioned scientific and nutritional institution established itself as one of the most authoritative and recognised scientific centres.

1988. Kometiani was involved in significant scientific-pedagogical work at Tbilisi State University and Georgian Polytechnic Institute from 1930 until 1988.

  Grigol Kometian's contribution was recognised with the three highest orders and five national medals.

  Grigol Kometiani passed away on September 9, 1991.

Artem Bojgua was born in 1902, on May 11, in the village of Zana, Senaki district. He completed elementary school in Senaki in 1920, and from then until 1923, he worked in rural areas. He served in the Cavalry Regiment from 1924 to 1925 and as a district chief in the Transcaucasian Railway's kerosene pumping division from 1925 to 1927. He enrolled in the mining faculty of the Transcaucasian Mining-Metallurgical Institute in 1930. He graduated in 1934 and began working as a draughtsman at the State Design Institute of Georgia.

1949. Bojgua was appointed director of the Industrial Institute of Georgia in August 1937, a position he held until 1949. He successfully defended his candidate's thesis in 1946 and was promoted to docent in 1947. He was involved in scientific-pedagogical work at the mining machinery and transport department.

  During Artem Bojgua's tenure as director, the institute celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1947, when it was given the Order of the Red Flag of Labour and renamed "Georgian Polytechnic Institute."

1951. Bojgua was allocated to a doctoral programme at the Institute of Mining Affairs of the USSR Academy of Sciences between 1949 and 1951. He has served as the laboratory director for the All-Union Coal Institute in Moscow since 1951, where he amassed several copyright certificates. His scientific and educational activities at Georgian Polytechnic Institute were maintained after his 1956 return to his native Georgia.

  Artem Bojgua was known for his boundless energy and diligence, as well as his friendliness, attention, and generosity towards students, professors, and engineering-technical employees. He has been awarded orders and medals in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the country and people.

Artem Bojgua died in 1957.

Giorgi Gvarjaladze was born in 1902 in the village of Shemokmedi, Ozurgeti district. He acquired his elementary education in his native village. He continued his education at Ozurgeti Gymnasium, where he graduated with honours in 1922. He began his studies at Tbilisi State University's Faculty of Mathematics that same year as a recipient of a scholarship, and starting in 1924, he transferred to the Polytechnic Faculty, where he majored in electromechanics. Under his supervision, a scientific-technical student circle of roughly 150 students was founded in 1926. They completed multi-time design and installation work at the Zemo Avchala hydropower plant (Zahesi) to provide electricity to the people of Tbilisi. G. Gvarjaladze graduated with honours from the higher education institution in 1929 with a degree in engineer-electromechanics, and he remained as an assistant in the Georgian Polytechnic Institute's Department of General and Theoretical Electrical Engineering. In the same year, he enrolled in the Department of Power Stations' postgraduate programme. He was a student of Academician Aleksandre Didibulidze, a notable Georgian scientist and one of the founders of Georgian Polytechnic Institute.

1. Gvarjaladze was appointed director of the Transcaucasian Energy Institute in 1930, following the reorganisation of Georgian Polytechnic Institute.

  Giorgi Gvarjaladze was the director (rector) of the Georgian Industrial Institute from September 1936 to August 1937. During this time, he worked tirelessly to develop and supplement the institute's teaching-laboratory base with innovative equipment.

1. Gvarjaladze's name is connected to the construction and commissioning of power plants in Rioni, Tkvarcheli, Khrami, Niabauri, and Tbilisi. His contribution to the development of Georgia's energy system is significant. G. Gvarjaladze made an essential contribution to engineering education. His students went on to become notable professionals and researchers in the energy and electrotechnical industries.

  Giorgi Gvarjaladze was described by contemporaries as having unusually extensive erudition, diversified education, and special organisational talent. He merited the respect and modesty of those around him for his kindness, charm, and simplicity.

  Giorgi Gvarjaladze passed away in 1937.

            He is awarded the Order of Honour

David Kandelaki, the first rector of Georgian Technical University, was born in 1895. Vladimir Kandelaki and Neolina Chkhenkeli, his parents, were teachers in Baku.

  Davit Kandelak studied in Germany for his higher education. He spoke a variety of European languages with ease. He was trained as an economist and began his career in Russia before arriving in Georgia in the autumn of 1921 to take up the position of People's Commissar of Education. He devoted ten years of selfless service, excellent expertise, and dedication to this essential national cause. At that point, the Department of Education consisted of preschool centres, secondary and higher schools, vocational-technical education, theatres, museums, cinema and the state publishing house.

  The Polytechnic Faculty of Tbilisi State University had undergone a reorganisation by October 1928. One of the university's original founders, Davit Kandelaki, was chosen by the faculty council to serve as the institute's first rector. Three faculties were formed: Construction: Dean Kiriak Zavriev; Mining-chemical: Dean Giorgi Tsulukidze; Electromechanical: Dean Giorgi Gedevanishvili. As a rector, Davit Kandelaki had a wide range of concerns and areas of responsibility. He devoted all of his strength and effort to creating new academic departments, adding high-level engineering and technical experts to the faculty, building the educational and scientific foundation, and enhancing the living arrangements of both students and academics. Davit Kandelaki's closest friends included the renowned Georgian scientist Shalva Nutsubidze, the writer Dia Chianeli, and Teimuraz Chumburidze, one of the most prominent leaders in the field of education. Davit Kandelaki co-founded the Kutaisi Pedagogical Institute with them. Davit Kandelaki was sent to Moscow in 1937, where he was subjected to political repression.