Georgiy Gongadze

Quick Facts

Full Name	Georgiy Gongadze
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	May 21, 1969(1969-05-21)
Age	55
Birthplace	Tbilisi
Country	Georgia
Horoscope	Taurus

Georgiy Gongadze Biography

Georgiy Gongadze is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 21, 1969 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze (Ukrainian: Георгій Русланович Гонгадзе ; Georgian: გიორგი ღონღაძე ; 21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000) was a Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000 near Kyiv. He founded the internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000.

During his school years, Giya was an outstanding athlete and was part of the Soviet reserve Olympic team in sprint on 100 and 200 meters. In his childhood Giya was growing up in multi-language environment speaking in Russian, Georgian, and English in school and Ukrainian at home. In 1986 Giya enrolled in the Foreign Languages Institute in Tbilisi with specialization in English language, but in 1987 he was already drafted in the Soviet Army serving in Turkmenistan on the border with Iran. His mother said that she had to pay to avoid for Georgiy to be sent to Afghanistan (Soviet–Afghan War). During that time the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov started his reforms perestroika along with liberalization of censorship (glasnost). The process only sped up the process of dissolution of the Soviet Union. Trying to stop the process and preserve the Soviet state, several armed and civil conflicts arose in the Soviet Union among which was the April 9 tragedy (Soviet troops killed 20 unarmed civilians) which radicalized many Georgians including Georgiy Gongadze.

Georgiy Gongadze Net Worth

Georgiy Gongadze is one of the richest Journalist from Georgia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Georgiy Gongadze 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Tbilisi, at the time the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Gongadze was the son of a Georgian architect Ruslan Gongadze and a Ukrainian dentist Olesya Korchak (a native of Lviv). His parents met in Lviv where they studied in universities and eventually got married. In 1967 the young Gongadze family moved to Tbilisi. Georgiy was born as a twin, but his brother was taken away while both of them were at the maternity chamber. Diminutive name for Georgiy was Giya. When Giya was 6 years old his parents divorced and his father later married for the second time and had another son from his second marriage. Giya’s mother stayed single and continued to live and work in Tbilisi until 1994.

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On 17 September 1993 Gongadze left Tbilisi for Sukhumi to film the events. Upon arrival, he was mobilized later that night and the following morning was at the frontlines along the Gumista River where the enemy was conducting the main assault. Gongadze was in a trench when over his head blew up an artillery shell. Shrapnel hit him in 26 places including his right hand. From imminent death he was saved by a steel helmet. Two other people that stood next to him perished. Those shards of shell forever were left inside of his body; and later were used to identify his dead body. About him being wounded, it was mentioned in a report from Sukhumi that was published in a Russophone Tbilisi newspaper “Svobodnaya Gruzia” on 21 September 1993. Gongadze was right away taken to a field hospital where he turn attention to himself by requesting to return from the battlefield his bag with video cassettes. That fact recalled the local militant Konstantin Alania also known as Koba who later became his friend for life. The cassettes were recovered by volunteers. The same Saturday night Gongadze and several other seriously wounded were sent to Tbilisi on a plane not long before the separatists occupied the city. Koba was left behind continue fighting and later managed to escape with some other militants withdrawing through mountain corridors. In 1995 he left Georgia for Lviv where by an accident met again with Georgiy.

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Gerald Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Georgia. Georgiy Gongadze celebrates birthday on May 21 of every year.

Gongadze volunteered to war in Abkhazia, but was refused to be admitted to military service by the government authorities and offered for being a son of Ruslan Gongadze and a Ukrainian citizen to provide propaganda agitation in Ukraine. Georgiy returned to Lviv to perform his “diplomatic mission” in an active support of Georgia in inter-ethnic conflict. At that time in Ukraine he only was able to find a marginal group of UNA-UNSO that were ready to dedicate itself to the Georgian cause. Gongadze was visiting UNA-UNSO gatherings to find recruits for fighting in Georgia. UNA-UNSO that had for its goal “to exile communists and criminals from Ukraine and overpower the Russian expansionism” seemed to be coinciding with Georgian nationalists. In July 1993 the UNA-UNSO battalion “Argo” led by Dmytro Korchynsky arrived to Tbilisi and was ready for fight in Abkhazia.