Nestor Lakoba
✓ Source-basedrisingAbkhazian politician (1893-1936)
Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba was an Abkhaz communist leader. Lakoba helped establish Bolshevik power in Abkhazia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and served as the head of Abkhazia after its conquest by the Red Army in 1921.
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The Georgian SSR as it appeared in 1922. The SSR Abkhazia is highlighted in pink.
It was due to his close relationship with Stalin that Lakoba was allowed to develop Abkhazia independently.
Lakoba with his wife, Sariya, 1930s
Lakoba on a 1997 Abkhazian postal stamp. He is regarded as a national hero in Abkhazia.
The statue of Lakoba in the Sukhumi Botanical Garden. It was erected in 1959, after Lakoba had been rehabilitated.Awards 2
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Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba was an Abkhaz communist leader. Lakoba helped establish Bolshevik power in Abkhazia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and served as the head of Abkhazia after its conquest by the Red Army in 1921. While in power, Lakoba saw that Abkhazia was initially given autonomy within the USSR as the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia. Though nominally a part of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic with a special status of "union republic," the Abkhaz SSR was effectively a separate republic, made possible by Lakoba's close relationship with Joseph Stalin. Lakoba successfully opposed the extension of collectivization of Abkhazia, though in return Lakoba was forced to accept a downgrade of Abkhazia's status to that of an autonomous republic within the Georgian SSR.
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