Besarion Gugushvili

Besarion Gugushvili ბესარიონ გუგუშვილი

1st Prime Minister of Georgia
In office 26 August 1991 – 6 January 1992
President	Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Preceded by	Murman Omanidze (acting); Tengiz Sigua
Succeeded by	Tengiz Sigua

Besarion Gugushvili (born May 6, 1945) is a Georgian politician and a former Prime Minister of the country.

Gugushvili was appointed prime minister, on August 26, 1991, after Tengiz Sigua resigned in August 1991. The closest associate of Georgia’s former President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he followed him into exile after the 1991-1992 coup and took part in the 1993 uprising. After the failure of the uprising and Gamsakhurdia’s death, Gugushvili was granted political asylum in Finland. As of 2008, he lives in Vantaa.

In 1992-1994 Gugushvili was a Member of the Cabinet of Ministers of Chechen Republic Ichkeria President Dzhokhar Dudayev (acting as Head of Department of Statistics) as well as an economic advisor to Dudayev.

Gugushvili designed the Georgian glyphs for the DejaVu typeface.^[1] He was also involved in the design of the Georgian script for the Nokia Pure typeface.

Notes

↑ Interview with Ben Laenen of DejaVu, Libre Graphics Magazine, November 2010, p. 56

Political offices
Preceded by Position created	Prime Minister of Georgia 1991–1992	Succeeded by Tengiz Sigua

Heads of Government of Georgia since 1918

DR of Georgia	Ramishvili Zhordania

Georgian SSR	Kavtaradze Mdivani Eliava Makharadze Sukhishvili Mgaloblishvili Sukhishvili Bakradze Chkhubianishvili Ketskhoveli Bakradze Javakhishvili Pataridze Kartvelishvili Cherkeziya Chkheidze Chitanava Sigua

Georgia	Sigua Omanidze* Gugushvili Sigua Shevardnadze* Patsatsia Lekishvili Lortkipanidze Arsenishvili Jorbenadze Zhvania Baramidze* Noghaideli Gurgenidze Mgaloblishvili Gilauri Merabishvili Ivanishvili Garibashvili Kvirikashvili

* denotes acting

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