Zviad Gamsakhurdia (Georgian: ????? ???????????, tr.
Zviad K'onst'ant'ines dze Gamsakhurdia; Russian: ????´? ?????????´????? ???????´????, tr.
Zviad Konstantinovich Gamsakhurdiya; March 31, 1939 – December 31, 1993) was a Georgian politician, dissident, scholar, and writer who became the first democratically elected President of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
Gamsakhurdia is the only Georgian President to have died while formally in office.