Vladislav Ardzinba

Vladislav Ardzinba
Vladislav Ardzinba
Владислав Арӡынба
	Ardzinba in 1996
1st President of Abkhazia
	In office; 26 November 1994 – 12 February 2005
Vice President	Valery Arshba
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Sergei Bagapsh
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Abkhazia
	In office; 8 November 1990 – 27 December 1991
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Abkhazia
	In office; 1990–1994
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet
	In office; 1987–1989
Personal details
Born	14 May 1945; Lower Eshera, Sukhumi District, Abkhazian ASSR, Georgian SSR, USSR
Died	4 March 2010 (aged 64); Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Abkhaz
Political party	Apsny
Spouse	Svetlana Jergenia
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Vladislav Ardzinba (Abkhaz: Владислав Арӡынба, Georgian: ვლადისლავ არძინბა; 14 May 1945 – 4 March 2010) was the first de facto president of Abkhazia. A historian by education, Ardzinba led Abkhazia to de facto independence in the 1992–1993 War with Georgia, but its de jure independence from Georgia remained internationally unrecognised during Ardzinba's two terms as President from 1994 to 2005.

A noted specialist in Hittitology, he was a member of the first parliament to be elected democratically in the Soviet Union in 1989.^[1]

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