Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau mai a Orjonikidze i Tbilisi, te taone nui o Georgia Soviet i taua wā, i puta ia i te Whare Wānanga o Moscow State me te tohu mo te philology i te tau 1965. I te 1976, i tohua ia hei kaiwhakahaere o Leonidze Museum of Georgian Literature, he tūranga i mau ia tae noa ki te 1982 me te 1989 ki te 1990 me te 1991 ki te 2010. I te tau 1989, ko Orjonikidze tetahi o nga mema o te komihana motuhake e tirotiro ana i nga mahi a te ope Soviet ki nga whakaaturanga pro-whakatika i Georgia i te Paenga-whāwhā 9, 1989
He aha? Whai muri i te rangatiratanga o Georgia mai i te Soviet Union, i pootihia ia ki te whare paremata mo te rohe o Saburtalo o Tbilisi mai i te 1992 ki te 1995.