1929 Transcaucasian Communist University Named "26" Identification.

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This 26 (Коммунаров/Комиссаров - Kommunarov was used more then and Komissarov more recently and it only gets more confusing with 3 languages involved) was founded in Tbilisi in November 1923 named after the Baku 26th Commissars and became the Tbilisi Higher Party School in 1931. Its purpose was to train specifically in the economic management of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. I'm not certain as to what the establishment evolved into (if it is around today as a teaching institute) but I believe it was on Rustaveli Prospect. It may be the same building as the Georgian National Academy Of Sciences (Which was created in February 1941).

I suppose in the end the institute emulated the 26th in failing to stick around.

There is also a http://soviet-awards.com/forum/soviet-bl...ation.html which post-dates the name change but that is just using up old stock.