| Aleksandr Apollonovich Shavlokhov Александр Аполлонович Шавлохов | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of South Ossetia | |
| In office 2 December 1996 –August 1998 | |
| President | Lyudvig Chibirov |
| Preceded by | Valery Hubulov |
| Succeeded by | Merab Chigoev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1939 Tskhinvali, Soviet Union |
Aleksandr Apollonovich Shavlokhov (Russian : Александр Аполлонович Шавлохов, born in 1939 in Tskhinvali, South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union [1] [2] ) is a South Ossetian politician and former Prime Minister, from 1996 until August 1998. [2]
Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although, nowadays, nearly three decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia, the rise of state-specific varieties of this language tends to be strongly denied in Russia, in line with the Russian World ideology.
Tskhinvali is a city in the cultural region of South Ossetia, Transcaucasia and the capital of the de facto independent Republic of South Ossetia and the former Soviet Georgian South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast. The city had been administratively divided into the region (mkhare) of Shida Kartli by Georgia after the revocation of the autonomous oblast. It’s located on the Great Liakhvi River approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
The South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast was an autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union created within the Georgian SSR on April 20, 1922. Its autonomy was revoked on December 10, 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR, leading to the First South Ossetian War. Currently, its territory is controlled by the breakaway Republic of South Ossetia.
Shavlokhov was educated as a mechanical engineer in Moscow. From 1965 until 1974, he worked at the "Elektrovibromashina" factory in Tskhinvali, where he was appointed director in 1973. From 1974 until 1981, he headed the executive committee of the Tskhinvali City Council. [1]
In 1996, after Lyudvig Chibirov had been elected as South Ossetia's first president, Shavlokhov became Chibirov's prime minister. During his time as PM, foreign contacts of South Ossetia were intensified, and programs were adopted to deepen the integration of North and South Ossetia. [3]
Lyudvig Alekseyevich Chibirov was the Chairman of the Parliament and later, following inaugural elections the first President of South Ossetia. Born in 1932, Chibirov is a former member of the South Ossetian Parliament. Prior to the elections in 1996, he had been South Ossetia's head of state since 1993. When the post of Chairman of the Parliament was abolished in favor of the presidency, Chibirov became the first occupant of the new office.
