Zakaria Bakradze, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Zakaria Bakradze

Polish-Georgian military officer

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1870

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 03-Dec-1938

Profession: military officer

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Zakaria Bakradze

  • Zakaria (Shakro) Bakradze (Georgian: ??????? (?????) ???????, Polish: Zachariasz Bakradze) (22 October 1868, Tbilisi – December 3, 1938) was a Polish-Georgian military officer and the General of both the Polish Army and the Georgian Army.
  • Zakaria Bakradze was born to the family of Dimitri Bakradze (1826–1890), a prominent Georgian historian.
  • He began his military career in the Imperial Russian army and distinguished himself during the First World War.
  • After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1918, he joined the national army and was a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Defence.
  • The Soviet invasion of Georgia in 1921 forced him (along with thousands of other Georgian officers) into exile in Poland, where he received further training in the Higher War School.
  • He then served in the Polish Army as Commander of Infantry (de facto deputy commander) of the Polish 15th Infantry Division.
  • He was killed in a road accident on December 3, 1938, near Bydgoszcz.

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