Grigol Keshelashvili

Grigol Nikolaevich Keshelashvili (born 1906) was a Georgian agronomist, agricultural scientist and professor, an Honored Worker of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. Born in the village of Tsinarekhi, he was sent to school in Tbilisi and graduated from the Agricultural Institute of Georgia in 1931. From 1938 to 1981 he headed the General Agriculture Department of that institute. His research dealt with the main questions of soil cultivation for field crops in Georgia and with weeds and the means of fighting them. He wrote textbooks including Farming and Planting (1964), General Farming and Fundamentals of Agriculture, and a study of Georgian weed vegetation and its control (1966), and he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and medals.