// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Efrem Eshba? Eshba-olutely unknown?

Efrem Eshba
Ефрем Алексеевич Эшба (Russian)
Eshba on a 1997 Abkhaz stamp
Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Abkhazia
In office February 1921 – February 1922
Preceded by	Post Created
Succeeded by	Post Abolished
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the SSR Abkhazia
In office February 1922 – 1922
Preceded by	Post Created
Succeeded by	Samson Kartoziya
People's Commissar of Justice of the Georgian SSR
In office October 1922 – December 1922
Preceded by	Sergey Kavtaradze
Succeeded by	Yakov Vardzieli
First Secretary of the Chechen Autonomous Oblast
In office January 1926 – August 1927
Preceded by	Magomed Eneyev
Succeeded by	Gurgen Bulat
Personal details
Born	(1893-03-07)7 March 1893 Agubedia, Sukhum Okrug, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	16 April 1939(1939-04-16) (aged 46) Kommunarka, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet
Party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Efrem Alekseevich Eshba (Russian: Ефрем Алексеевич Эшба; 19 March [O.S. 7 March] 1893 – 16 April, 1939) was an Abkhaz and Soviet statesman and leading Bolshevik in Abkhazia in the 1920s.

Life

Education

Eshba graduated from the Sukhumi Mountain School and the Tiflis Gymnasium. He studied law at Moscow University. During his studies at the university, he became a Marxist, joining the Bolsheviks in 1914.

Political career

He was elected Chairman of the Sukhum District Committee of the RSDLP(B) in 1917, and was a Special Commissioner in the People's Commissariat for Nationalities of the RSFSR.

In 1921 he wrote to the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) to oppose a merger of Abkhazia with Georgia.

Arrest and execution

In 1936, he was arrested by the NKVD, and was sentenced to death in 1939. He was executed, and posthumously rehabilitated during the process of destalinization.