Date of Birth:

September 15, 1950

Education:

• 1957-1967 – School №3, Zugdidi.
• 1967-1972 – Faculty of History of Tbilisi State University. Qualification: Historian, Teacher of history
• 1972-1975 – Graduate School. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Department of the History of the USSR in the Period of the Feudalism. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1978г.)

Speciality:

• History of Georgia

 

Academic Degree, Academic Title:

• Doctor of Historical Sciences (1991г.), Professor (1994)

 

Current Position:

• Head of Scientific Work Coordination Service at the Sokhumi State University.
• Full Professor of the Faculty of Humanities at the Sokhumi State University
• Chairman of the Abkhazian Organization of the Georgian Historical Society by Ekvtime Takaishvili, Editor-in-Chief  of the „Historical Researches“. – The Scientific Edition of the Abkhazian Organization of Georgian Historical Society by Eqvtime Takaishvili.
  
• Editor-in-Chief  of the „Proceedings of Sokhumi State University“. Humanities, Social and Political Sciences Series.

Positions Held:

• 2008-2009 – Head of the Service of Science and Doctoral Studies of the Sokhumi State University;
• 2006-2009 – Full Professor of the Faculty of Humanities and Social-political Sciences of Iv.  Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Sokhumi Branch;
• 2007 – Coordinator of the Service of Scientific Researching and Doctoral Studies of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Sokhumi Branch;
• 2005-2006 – Head of the Department of Scientific Researching of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Sokhumi Branch;
• 1994-2006 – Senior research worker, Deputy of Chief of Center of the Research Centre of the History of Georgian State and Popular Diplomacy of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University;
• 1989-2005 – Head of the Department of history of Georgia of Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Sokhumi Branch;
• 1994 – Counsellor of State of the Ministry Cabinet of Republic of Georgia;
• 1994 – Senior Officer of the Department of work with staff of II Army Corps of Ministry of Defence of Republic of Georgia;
• 1979-1989 – Lecturer, Dotsent, Deputy of head of the Department. M. Gorky Abkhazia State university
• 1976-1979 – Lecturer, Department of World History. M. Gorky Sokhumi State Pedagogical Institute

Scholarships and Fellowships, State Awards:

• 2010 – Shota Rustaveli Fellowship;
• 2006-2009  – “Georgia and Outer World” – Georgian National Science Foundation;
• 1998-2000 – “History of Georgian Diplomacy”  (Textbook, in Georgian). – Department of the Scientific of Georgia;
• 2002 – Medal of Honour;
• 1998 – Giorgi Sharvashidze State Prize;
• 1982 – Prize of Young Communists of Georgia. For the Cycle of scientific works on the History of International Relations of Georgia in the 11^th-12^th Centuries.

 

Participation in the International Symposiums and Conferences:

• 2010 – 1st International Seljuk Symposium. Erciyes University, Kayseri /Turkey, Title of Report: „Battle of Manzikert and Some Issues of Georgian-Seljuk Relations in Early 1070’s” (in Russian).
• 2007 – First International Congress of Caucasiologists, Tbilisi (Georgia). – Title of Report: „On National, Political and Cultural Self-Identity of the Sharvashidze Princedom“.
• 1999 – Policy of Genocide and Etnic Cleansing in Abkhazia (Georgia) – the Main Tool of aggressive Separatism. International Conference-Seminar. Tbilisi (Georgia). – Title of Report: „The Essence of the Conflict in Abkhazia and its Participants. Or Those who Struggled Against Georgia“.

Family:

• Spouse – Nona Sh. Bendeliani , b/d 1949, Doctor, Pediatrician.
• Son – Teimuraz Z. Papaskiri, b/d 1974, Ph.D. in History, Full Professor, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University;
• Daughter – Natia Z. Papaskiri, b/d 1982, MA of Philology, doctoral student of Sokhumi State University, Teacher at Language Centre, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
• Granddaughter – Mariam T. Papaskiri, b/d 2003, Schoolchild
• Grandson – Nikoloz E. Ekhvaia b/d 2006.