The Order of the National Hero ( ka, ეროვნული გმირის ორდენი, ''erovnuli gmiris ordeni'') is the highest
honor awarded by the government of
Georgia together with the title of National Hero. It was established in 2004.
Statute
The Order of National Hero was established on 24 June 2004. It is conferred on individuals for an "exceptional, distinguishable heroic" service to Georgia. The award carries the monetary grant of 10,000
Georgian lari.
Recipients
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Zhiuli Shartava
Zhiuli Shartava (; March 7, 1944 – September 27, 1993) was a Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia who was killed by Abkhaz militants during the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abk ...
– Georgian politician; posthumously, 2004.
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Zaza Damenia – Georgian army corporal; posthumously, 2004.
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms ...
– United States politician; 2010.
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Lech Kaczyński – President of Poland; posthumously, 2010.
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Zviad Gamsakhurdia – the first President of Georgia; posthumously, 2013.
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Merab Kostava
Merab Kostava ( ka, მერაბ კოსტავა) (May 26, 1939 – October 13, 1989) was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia. Along with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he led ...
– Georgian Soviet-era dissident; posthumously, 2013.
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* ]Giorgi Mazniashvili
Giorgi Mazniashvili ( ka, გიორგი მაზნიაშვილი) (6 April 1870 – 16 December 1937) was a Georgian general and one of the most prominent military figures in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921). During ...
– Georgian general; posthumously, 2013.Grigol Peradze
Saint Grigol Peradze ( ka, გრიგოლ ფერაძე; 13 September 1899 – 6 December 1942) was a prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure, philologist, theologian, historian, and professor of patristics in the interwar period.
Li ...
– Georgian churchman and scholar; posthumously, 2013.[
* Ekvtime Takaishvili – Georgian historian and archaeologist; posthumously, 2013.][
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– Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia; posthumously, 2013.[
* ]Mikheil Tsereteli
Prince Mikheil "Mikhako" G. Tsereteli also known as Michael von Zereteli ( ka, მიხეილ "მიხაკო" წერეთელი) (December 23, 1878 – March 2, 1965) was a Georgian prince, historian, philologist, sociologist ...
– Georgian historian; posthumously, 2013.[
* Giorgi Antsukhelidze – Georgian army sergeant; posthumously, 2013.
* Zurab Iarajuli – Georgian Air Force officer; posthumously, 2013.
* ]Maro Makashvili
Maro Makashvili ( ka, მარო მაყაშვილი; 25 August 1901 – 19 February 1921) was a young Georgian woman who was killed during the 1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia. In 2015, she was the first woman to be awarded the Georgian ...
– Georgian Red Cross nurse, the first woman to be awarded the Order; posthumously, 2015.
* Guram Gabiskiria
Guram Gabiskiria ( ka, გურამ გაბესკირია; 2 March 1947 – 27 September 1993) was a Mayor of Sukhumi who was murdered by Abkhaz separatists during the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia in 1993.
Biography
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– Mayor of Sukhumi during the separatist war in Abkhazia; posthumously, 2017.
* Zurab Chavchavadze – Soviet-era dissident; posthumously, 2018.
See also
*Orders, decorations, and medals of Georgia Orders, decorations, and medals of Georgia are the orders, state decorations and medals that are granted by the national government of Georgia for meritorious achievements in national defense, state improvement, and the development of democracy and ...
* Order of Queen Tamara (2009)
References
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Orders, decorations, and medals of Georgia (country)
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2004 establishments in Georgia (country)
Awards established in 2004
Hero (title)