Efrem Alekseevich Eshba (Russian: Ефрем Алексеевич Эшба; 19 March [O.S. 7 March] 1893 – 16 April, 1939) was an Abkhaz and Soviet statesman and leading Bolshevik in Abkhazia in the 1920s.

Efrem Eshba
Ефрем Алексеевич Эшба (Russian)
Eshba on a 1997 Abkhaz stamp
Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Abkhazia
In office
February 1921 – February 1922
Preceded byPost Created
Succeeded byPost Abolished
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the SSR Abkhazia
In office
February 1922 – 1922
Preceded byPost Created
Succeeded bySamson Kartoziya
People's Commissar of Justice of the Georgian SSR
In office
October 1922 – December 1922
Preceded bySergey Kavtaradze
Succeeded byYakov Vardzieli
First Secretary of the Chechen Autonomous Oblast
In office
January 1926 – August 1927
Preceded byMagomed Eneyev
Succeeded byGurgen Bulat
Personal details
Born(1893-03-07)7 March 1893
Agubedia, Sukhum Okrug, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Died16 April 1939(1939-04-16) (aged 46)
Kommunarka, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet
NationalityAbkhazian
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union

References

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  • Blauvelt, Timothy K. (2014), "The Establishment of Soviet Power in Abkhazia: Ethnicity, Contestation and Clientalism in the Revolutionary Periphery", Revolutionary Russia, 27 (1): 22–46, doi:10.1080/09546545.2014.904472, S2CID 144974460