Overview of the Aleksandr Dursunovich Tkhilaishvili Photographic Collection

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Overview of the Aleksandr Dursunovich Tkhilaishvili Photographic Collection

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Processed by:: Hoover Institution Archives Staff
Date Completed:: 2009
Encoded by:: Machine-readable finding aid created derived from MARC record by Elizabeth Phillips.

Collection Summary

Title: Aleksandr Dursunovich Tkhilaishvili photographic collection

Dates: 1961-1973

Collection Number: 2012C14

Creator: Tkhilaishvili, Aleksandr Dursunovich, collector.

Collection Size: 4 oversize boxes (1.6 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Photographs depicting visits of Nikita Khrushchev and other high Soviet officials to the Adzhar Autonomous Soviet Republic, and the 22nd Congress of the Soviet Communist Party.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives

Languages: English

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Aleksandr Dursunovich Tkhilaishvili photographic collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2011.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Biographical Note

Tkhilaishvili was the first secretary of the Adjara Regional Committee (Obkom) of the Communist Party of Georgia in the 1960s and 1970s

Scope and Content of Collection

These photo albums depict visits by Soviet officials to the autonomous Soviet Republic of Adjara (Adzharia) in the present Republic of Georgia, hosted by the chief communist official in the region, Tkhilaishvili. One album is devoted to the May 1961 visit of Nikita Khrushchev. The other albums in the collection depict visits by other Soviet party and military officials, including Marshals V. A. Sudets and K. S. Moskalenko, Assistant Prime Minister L. V. Smirnov, and Assistant Minister of Defense (and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) S. S. Mariakhin. One album is devoted to the Twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR (17-31 October 1961), at which Khrushchev promised the advent of communism by 1980.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971--Pictorial works.

Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza--Pictorial works.

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