ვახტანგ მალაყმაძე (ჰაირი ჰაირიოღლუ) - ქართველი მეცნიერი და საზოგადო მოღვაწე თურქეთში (1936-2002 წწ.)
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2011
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Abstract
Vakhtang Malakmadze, whose official Turkish name is Hayri Hayrioglu,
takes a special place among the ethnic Georgians of the Republic of Turkey
during the 20th century. Unfortunately, his name is mostly unknown for the
broad masses of the Georgian society.
The name of Vakhtang Malakmadze (Hayri Hayrioglu) is closely
connected with the name of famous Georgian public figure Akhmed Melashvili.
Vakhtang Malakmadze was Akhmed’s closest friend, his scientific consultant
and his great supporter. They created the base of scientific data, found
historical, ethnographic material and restored the connection with the Georgian
culture together with other great public figures.
Vakhtang Malakmadze entered the police school of Ildiz in Istambul in
1960; after graduation he worked on high posts in the civil defense sphere in
different Vilaiets. Vakhtang Malakmadze’s tense labour rhythm continued until
1982. At the same time he was working on scientific and public issues. He was
the initiator of every Georgian affair, supporter and protector of every Georgian
public figure.
After he retired, Vakhtang Malakmadze worked in the direction of saving
and studying Georgian culture. Unfortunately, he went blind during the last
years of his life. He died in 2000.
In the 60s of the 20th century Vakhtang Malakmadze and Akhmed
Melashvili, together with other public figures, began working on saving
Georgian indentity, waking and developing the national feelings among
Georgians in Turkey.
Vakhtang Malakmadze prepared and published “Georgian Children’s
Tales”. The book was published in two volumes and became very popular. It is
important, that the book was positively estimated by the state department – Ministry of Education of Turkey.
Vakhtang Malakmadze, Akhmed Melashvili and other Georgian public
figures in Turkey were trying to introduce common Georgian culture to the Lazs
in Turkey. Vakhtang Malakmadze was working on the issues of history and
origin of Lazs for a year and a half. Scientific materials, naturally, proved the
facts that Lazs were the part of common Georgian culture. M. Vanishili’s and
A. Tandilava’s work “The History of Lazs”, translated into Turkish by
Vakhtang Malakmadze and published in 1992/3 was one of the first works by
which Turkish society and Lazs themselves found out the issues of Lazs’
history, origin and culture – objective scientific analysis of these problems. By
spreading this work began the fight for saving traditional culture of Lazs; the
objective reality that the history of Lazs’ ethnogenesis is indivisible from
Georgians’ history and Lazs’ traditional culture is part of Georgian culture as
well, became obvious.
Vakhtang Malakmadze was working on the issues of Georgian history for
a long time. He wanted to provide Georgians in Turkey with Georgian history
translated into Turkish. After several years of work he translated “Georgian
History” by Ivane Javakhishvili, Niko Berdzenishvili and Simon Janashia.
Naturally, the problem was finding sum for publishing the book and the famous
publishing house “Sorun Iainlar” helped solving this problem. “Georgian
History” was published in 1997, then republished in 2000. The book contains
305 pages. Nowadays this book is the main publication about Georgian history
and culture and it is widely used by the interested part of Turkish society.
“From Trapizon to Abkhazeti – the History and Culture of the people of
Eastern Black Sea Coast Region” – another work made, composed and
translated into Turkish by Vakhtang Malakmadze is dedicated to the
popularization of Georgian culture. The work is the collection of the
publications of several famous authors and it contains Vakhtang Malakmadze’s
scientific analysis of some issues as well. The collection presents the issues of
Georgians’ (Chans’/Lazs’, Megrels’, Svans’) traditional life and culture as well
as the Georgian history and culture in common, from the ancient period up to
mid-20th century. The information collected from the Turkish sources by
Vakhtang Malakmadze is very important, for example, notification of “Islam
Encyclopedia” about Lazs’ Georgian origin, etc. The Chapter about the
traditional life of Svaneti gives interesting analysis of folk celebrations, epos
and mentality. The collection presents the history and life of Abkhazians and
Ossetians – ethnic groups living on the territory of Georgia, as well as the historical and cultural issues of the ethnic groups living in the eastern Black Sea
coast region (Khemshinebi, Chephnilerebi).
Together with the scientific activity, Vakhtang Malakmadze was very
important and active public figure. He was the participant, supporter and in
most cases, initiator of every activity connected to saving Georgian identity and
culture. After the tragic death of Akhmed Melashvili, he became the leader of
the national-cultural movement. According to his advices and with the help of
his supporting, the new generation of Georgian public figures (Guram Khimshiashvili/
Mustapha Yakut, Iberia Melashvili/Ozkan, Giorgi Iremadze/Şemsettin
Iyem, Mamia Dumbadze and others) managed to continue the cultural
movement which was started by Akhmed Melashvili.
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ვახტანგ მალაყმაძე, ჰაირი ჰაირიოღლუ, აჰმედ მელაშვილი
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ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის საქართველოს ისტორიის ინსტიტუტის შრომები, IV, თბილისი, 2011, გვ. 364-375 / Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Institute of Georgian History Proceedings, IV, Tbilisi, 2011, pp. 364-375