GTU Supervisory Board President Took Part in the Opening Ceremony of the Jiuli Shartava Monument in Zugdidi

“It has been 32 years since the last September of Jiuli Shartava. “I am in favor of such an independent Georgia where there will exist a high political culture, true tolerance, and true democracy”, – the author of these words, whose career started in the Communist Union, lived in independent Georgia for only a few years.

It is hard to talk without emotions about the person who passed an important stage of his life within the walls of the Georgian Technical University.

Fortunately, we, his colleagues and friends, have the opportunity to tell the future generations about a man who courageously sacrificed his life on the altar of his motherland”, said the President of the Supervisory Board of the Georgian Technical University, Professor Zurab Gudavadze, at the unveiling of the national hero’s, Jiuli Shartava monument, in Zugdidi. 

Today, in Zugdidi, the President of the Supervisory Board of the Georgian Technical University attended the opening ceremony of Jiuli Shartava’s monument. According to Professor Zurab Gudavadze, at the GTU, where Jiuli Shartava studied and worked, the name of the national hero is forever immortalized among students and teachers. 

 “Jiuli Shartava was an official and could save himself, but he did not do it, thus, he set an example of self-sacrifice and love for the motherland, an example of how to serve the country and be a patriot.

At the Georgian Technical University, one of the ultra-modern laboratory complexes bears the name of the national hero, where students and future scientists conduct research using the latest technologies.

Today, the monument of the national hero was unveiled in Zugdidi. It is symbolic that to celebrate Mr. Jiuli’s 32nd extinguished September, granddaughter – Lika Shartava opened the grandfather’s monuments. I want to wish her success”, said Zurab Gudavadze. 

Jiuli Shartava headed the Rustavi City Committee in 1985-1986. A political, state, and public figure, chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Defense Council of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, was shot dead by separatists on September 27th, 1993 – the day of the fall of Sukhumi. In 2004, Jiuli Shartava was awarded the title of National Hero of Georgia.