Shaaban Abash (, ; 1890 – 1953) was the rider of the Abkhazians hundreds of the Circassian cavalry regiment of the Caucasian native division during the First World War. Shaaban was Afro-Abkhazian.
Early life
Shaaban Abash was born in the village of
Adzyubzha, in what was then the
Sukhum Okrug of the Kutais Governorate in the
Russian Empire (now
Abkhazia) to an
Afro-Abkhazians peasant family. He had eleven brothers and sisters.
Military service and work
At the age of 17, he enrolled in the Abkhazian hundred of the Circassian cavalry regiment, which took part in the First World War. He was awarded the Cross of St. George for making a reconnaissance raid across river Dniester and returning under fire after collecting valuable intelligence.
After the establishment of Soviet power, Shaaban Abash was an associate of the leader of Abkhazia
Nestor Lakoba, in 1931 he was elected a member of the Central Election Commission of Abkhazia.
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