Famous People with Name Shalva

Shalva Abhazava            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Shalva Abhazava: was a Georgian professional football striker who played for FC Arsenal Kyiv in Ukraine.

Shalva Alexi-Meskhishvili            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Shalva Alexi-Meskhishvili: was a Georgian jurist and politician who served as Minister of Justice of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918 to 1919.He was one of the founders of the Georgian Social-Federalist Party and joined the Georgian National Council after the Russian Revolution of 1917. After Georgia’s declaration of independence in May 1918, he served as Minister of Justice in the government of Noe Ramishvili until the 1919 elections in which he obtained a seat in the Constituent Assembly.

Shalva Eliava            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Shalva Eliava: was a Georgian Old Bolshevik and Soviet official who contributed to Sovietization of Central Asia and Caucasus but fell victim to Stalin’s Great Purge.Eliava was born into an impoverished noble family from western Georgia. He studied law at the Petersburg University in 1903, but was excluded for his involvement in students’ protests. In 1904, he joined the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and took part in the 1905 uprisings in Tiflis and Kutaisi.

Shalva Natelashvili            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Shalva Natelashvili: is chairman and founder of Georgian Labour Party known for his populism and criticism of the current President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. He is married and has 2 children.He supported Shevardnadze's government during the 2003 Rose Revolution, however, and later was a staunch opponent of President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Shalva Konstantinovich Chikhladze            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Shalva Konstantinovich Chikhladze: was a Soviet wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.