Amiran Totikashvili 

(Georgian: ამირან ტოტიკაშვილი) (born 21 July 1969 in Martkopi)[1] is

a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics. There he
won the bronze medal in the extra lightweight class. He is the current trainer of the Turkmenistan
National Judo team.
He is also two times European champion 1988 in Pamplona and 1989 in Helsinki. He was the
Bronze medalist in 1990 in Frankfurt.
Champion International Tournaments in Paris in 1990 and the Goodwill Games in Seattle.

Coach career[edit]
In March 2019, it became known that Amiran Totikashvili would train Turkmenistan judo wrestlers
for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo.[2]

References[edit]
1. ^ Profile at Sports-Reference.com
2. ^ Грузинский специалист приступил к работе в сборной Туркменистана по дзюдо

 Amiran Totikashvili at databaseOlympics.com (archived)

 The word soviet is derived from the Russian word sovet (Russian: совет), meaning
"council", "assembly", "advice", "harmony", "concord",[j] ultimately deriving from the proto-
Slavic verbal stem of vět-iti ("to inform"), related to Slavic věst ("news"), English "wise",
the root in "ad-vis-or" (which came to English through French), or the Dutch weten ("to
know"; cf. wetenschap meaning "science"). The word sovietnik means "councillor".[14]
 Some organizations in Russian history were called council (Russian: совет). In
the Russian Empire, the State Council which functioned from 1810 to 1917 was referred
to as a Council of Ministers after the revolt of 1905.[14]
 During the Georgian Affair, Vladimir Lenin envisioned an expression of Great
Russian ethnic chauvinism by Joseph Stalin and his supporters, calling for these nation-
states to join Russia as semi-independent parts of a greater union which he initially
named as the Union of Soviet Republics of Europe and Asia (Russian: Союз Советских
Республик Европы и Азии, tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Respublik Evropy i Azii).[15] Stalin initially
resisted the proposal but ultimately accepted it, although with Lenin's agreement
changed the name to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), albeit all the
republics began as socialist soviet and did not change to the other order until 1936. In
addition, in the national languages of several republics, the word council or conciliar in
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