Merab Kostava

Merab Kostava
მერაბ კოსტავა (Georgian)
Kostava in 1988
Born	(1939-05-26)26 May 1939 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR
Died	13 October 1989(1989-10-13) (aged 50) Boriti, Georgian SSR, USSR
Nationality	Georgian
Known for	Soviet and Georgian dissident
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Merab Kostava (Georgian: მერაბ კოსტავა) (May 26, 1939 – October 13, 1989) was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia. Along with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he led the dissident movement in Georgia against the Soviet Union, until his death in a car crash in 1989.