The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს რესპუბლიკის უზენაესი საბჭო, sakartvelos respublikis uzenaesi sabcho) was the highest unicameral legislative body in Georgia elected in the first democratic, multiparty elections in the Caucasus in October 1990 while the country was still part of the Soviet Union. The Council presided over the declaration of Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union in April 1991. The legislature split into rivaling factions and became defunct after a violent coup d’etat ousted President Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January 1992. A pro-Gamsakhurdia faction managed to convene for a few times in exile and again in Georgia during Gamsakhurdia’s failed attempt to regain power later in 1993. The Supreme Council was succeeded – after a brief parliamentary vacuum filled by the rule of the post-coup Military Council and then the State Council – by the Parliament of Georgia elected in October 1992.
The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia was preceded by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (July 1938 – October 1990), which in its turn was a successor of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR (February 1922 – July 1938).
Chairmen of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR/Republic of Georgia
- July 8, 1938 — ?: Ioseb Kochlamazashvili
- ? — March 26, 1948: Vasil Gogua
- March 26, 1948 — ?: Archil Gigoshvili
- 1954 — April 26, 1963: Viktor Kupradze
- April 26, 1963 — July 12, 1971: Rapiel Dvali
- July 12, 1971 — November 14, 1990: Irakli Abashidze
- November 14, 1990 — April 14, 1991: Zviad Gamsakhurdia
- April 14, 1991 — January 2, 1992: Akaki Asatiani
Chairmen of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR
- July 10, 1938 — December 10, 1941: Filipp Makharadze
- January 1, 1942 — March 26, 1948: Giorgi Sturua
- March 26, 1948 — April 6, 1952: Vasil Gogua
- April 6, 1952 — April 15, 1953: Zakaria Chkhubiashvili
- April 15, 1953 — October 29, 1953: Vladimer Tskhovrebashvili
- October 29, 1953 — April 17, 1959: Miron Chubinidze
- April 18, 1959 — January 26, 1976: Giorgi Dzotsenidze
- January 26, 1976 — March 29, 1989: Pavle Gilashvili
- March 29, 1989 — November 17, 1989: Otar Cherkezia
- November 17, 1989 — November 14, 1990: Givi Gumbaridze
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