Astamur Adleiba

Infobox Mayor
name=Astamur Antonovich Adleiba


order=Mayor of Sukhumi
term_start=February 16, 2005
term_end=May 2, 2007
president=
predecessor=Adgur Kharazia
successor=Anzor Kortua (acting)
birth_date=1960
birth_place=Sukhumi, Abkhazian ASSR, Georgian SSR, USSR
party=
religion=
spouse=

Astamur Antonovich Adleiba ( _ab. "Асҭамыр Антон-иҧа Адлеиба") is a former Minister of Youth, Sports, Tourism and Resorts of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia and a former mayor of Sukhumi, Abkhazia's capital.

=Early life and career [cite news|url=http://www.regnum.ru/news/408745.html&tbb=1|title=Астамур Адлейба назначен и.о. мэра столицы Абхазии|publisher=REGNUM|date=February 17, 2005|accessdate=2008-07-01] =

Astamur Adleiba was born in 1960 in Sukhumi. From 1977 until 1984 he was a student of the Georgian State University of Subtropical Agriculture in Sukhumi. Since 1979 till 1981 Adleiba did community service for the Soviet army and in 1981-1982 he was an instructor with the Sukhumi city committee of the Komsomol. From 1982 until 1984 Adleiba served as an agronomist in the ministry of agriculture of the Abkhazian ASSR and from 1984 until 1986 he served as an agronomist in the state committee for agricultural production of the autonomous republic. From 1986 until 1989 Adleiba was the chief agronomist in the Kindga poultry farms and from 1989 until 1992 he was the vice-president of the council for collective farms in the Abkhazian ASSR.

After the 1992-1993 war with Georgia, from 1993 until 2002 Adleiba was the director of the tourist-hotel Aytar. In December 2002 he was appointed Minister of Youth, Sports, Tourism and Resorts by President Vladislav Ardzinba.

Mayor of Sukhumi

After coming to power, the new President Sergei Bagapsh made Astamur Adleiba mayor of Sukhumi on February 16, 2005, replacing Adgur Kharazia, who had been appointed only 4 months before by outgoing president Ardzinba. [cite news|url=http://www.abkhaziagov.org/ru/president/activities/decree/detail.php?ID=1498|title=Указ Президента Абхазии №5 от 16.02.2005|publisher=Администрация Президента Республики Абхазия|date=February 16, 2005|accessdate=2008-07-01] In the February 11 2007 local elections, Adleiba successfully defended his seat in the Sukhumi city assembly and was thereupon reappointed mayor by Bagapsh on March 20 2007. [cite news|url=http://www.apsnypress.info/news2007/march/20.htm|title=Президент Сергей Багапш подписал указы о назначении глав городских и районных администраций|publisher=Апсныпресс|date=March 20, 2007|accessdate=2008-07-01]

In April 2007, while President Bagapsh was in Moscow for medical treatment, the results of an investigation into corruption within the Sukhumi city administration were made public. The investigation found that large sums had been embezzled and upon his return, on May 2, Bagapsh fired Adleiba along with his deputy Boris Achba, the head of the Sukhumi's finance department Konstantin Tuzhba and the head of the housing department David Jinjolia. [cite news|url=http://www.iwpr.net/?p=crs&s=f&o=335985&apc_state=henicrs2007|title=Abkhazia's anti-corruption drive|publisher=Institute for War & Peace Reporting|date=March 20, 2007|accessdate=2008-07-01]

On June 4 Adleiba paid back to the municipal budget 200,000 rubels. [cite news|url=http://www.regnum.ru/news/838958.html&tbb=1|title=Экс-мэр Сухуми вернул в бюджет двести тысяч рублей|publisher=REGNUM|date=June 5, 2007|accessdate=2008-07-02] On July 23, Adleiba resigned from the Sukhumi city council, citing health reasons and the need to travel abroad for medical treatment. [cite news|url=http://www.abkhaziagov.org/ru/president/press/news/detail.php?ID=7220|title=Экс-мэр Сухума намерен покинуть Столичное городское Собрание|publisher=Администрация Президента Республики Абхазия|date=July 23, 2007|accessdate=2008-07-02]

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