Ilia Odishelidze

Military Person

1865 – 1921

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Who was Ilia Odishelidze?

Ilia Odishelidze; Russian: Илья Зурабович Одишелидзе, Ilya Zurabovich Odishelidze was a Georgian military leader who had also served as a general of the Imperial Russian army.

Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, he graduated from the 3rd Alexander’s School and the General Staff Academy in St Petersburg. The next ten years were spent in military work in various regions of the empire. He took part in the Russo-Japanese war in the capacity of a chief of staff of the 6th Eastern Siberian Division. He served, from 9 November 1911 to 9 January 1914, a governor general of Samarkand and was moved afterwards as a chief of staff of the Turkestan Military District. Promoted to lieutenant general on 11 October 1914, he held various commanding posts in the 1st and 3rd armies from November 1914 to the fall of 1917. On October 2, 1917 he was appointed the commander-in-chief of the Caucasus Army. In January 1918 he was in command at Erzurum. After the total collapse of the Tsarist administration in the Caucasus, he resigned as a commander and helped to organize national Georgian divisions. In March 1918, he served as deputy minister of war for the Transcaucasian Transcaucasian Commissariat, but was sacked for his nationalistic sentiments. After Georgia’s declaration of independence, he held various important posts in the national armed forces and served as the commander-in-chief of army from the Fall of 1920 to February 1921. After the Soviet invasion of Georgia he was shot by the Bolsheviks.

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Born
Mar 25, 1865
Died
1921

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on July 23, 2013

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