Shota Rustaveli, mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature. Rustaveli was the author of The Knight in the Panther's Skin, a Georgian national epic poem.
MS Mikhail Lermontov was an ocean liner owned by the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company, built in 1972 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. It was later converted into a cruise ship. On 16 February 1986 it collided with rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, and sank, claiming the life of one of its crew members.
Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors.
Mykola Platonovych Bazhan was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure. He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951), Merited Science Specialist of Ukrainian SSR (1966), Merited Art Specialist of Georgian SSR (1964), People's Poet of Uzbek SSR.
Rustaveli Avenue, formerly known as Golovin Street, is the central avenue in Tbilisi named after the medieval Georgian poet, Shota Rustaveli.
Andria Balanchivadze was a Georgian composer. He was the son of composer Meliton Balanchivadze and brother of ballet choreographer George Balanchine.
The Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University is the higher educational university in Batumi, capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. Georgia. It is named after the medieval Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli.
Sophia Chiaureli, professionally known as Sofiko Chiaureli, was a Soviet Georgian actress. Thought to be the muse of filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, she played a significant role in the 20th century Georgian theater and was associated with the country's two most prominent theaters, the Rustaveli Theatre (1964–1968) and Marjanishvili Theatre.
Nodar Mgaloblishvili was a Soviet and Georgian theatrical and cinema actor.
David "Dodo" Abashidze was a Soviet Georgian film actor and director. Abashidze, who joined the Communist Party in 1960, was named People’s Artist of Georgia in 1967. After his passing, a Tbilisi street was named in his honor. He appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1988.
Shota Rustaveli was a Georgian poet.
Klio was a 1,403 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1924 by AG Weser, Bremen, Germany for Neptun Line. In 1945, she was seized by the Allies and passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), renamed Empire Conclyde. In 1946, she was passed to the Soviet Union and renamed Shota Rustavelli.
Bidzina Kvernadze, , was a famous Georgian composer.
Iza Orjonikidze was a Georgian poet and literary scholar who was also member of the Parliament of Georgia from 1992 to 1995.
Dimitri Tavadze was a Georgian artist and scenographer.
Irma Ratiani is a literary theoretician and translator, Doctor of Philological Sciences (2003), Professor (2004) at the Tbilisi State University, Head of the Department of General and Comparative Literary Studies; Director of the research center - Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature; Editor in Chief of Annual Scientific Journal of Literry Theory and Comparative Literature published in Georgia - Sjani (Thoughts);Member of the EC of International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA).
Revaz Shalva Tabukashvili (Rezo) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.
Alvina Andreevna Shpady was an artist and art restorer in Uzbekistan. As a longtime restorer at the Nukus Museum of Art, she worked to preserve the museum's holdings as well as to promote traditional Karakalpak textile techniques.
Ivan Ivanovich Cherinko was a Ukrainian artist who moved to Turkmenistan, after visiting Ashgabat in 1933 and finding the city beautiful and picturesque. He was among the Russian-trained artists who came to Turkmenistan and created works of art the captured the nature and culture of the republic. He founded the Union of Artists of Turkmenistan in the 1930s and co-founded the Sh. Rustaveli Turkmen Art School. In 1945, he was named an Honored Art Worker of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.
