Ka cika wannan jumlar: Abashvili ɗan ƙabilar Georgia ne, an haife shi a Tbilisi, Georgia, wadda take cikin Daular Rasha a lokacin. Ya kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Naval na Leningrad a shekarar 1931 kuma ya shiga rundunar jiragen ruwa ta Soviet Baltic wacce ya yi aiki tare da ita ta hanyar
Yakin Finnish da Yaƙin Duniya na II. A cikin 1944, ya kasance mataimakin shugaban ma'aikatan Rundunar Baltic kuma ya kuma ba da umurni ga rukunin masu hallaka waɗanda suka taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen sauƙaƙe toshewar Leningrad. A 1953 ya kasance babban jami'in tare da jiragen ruwa na Soviet da suka ziyarci Poland kuma a 1954 tare da waɗanda aka kira a Finland. A lokacin rikicin makamai masu linzami na Cuba a shekarar 1962, Abashvili ya kasance mataimakin kwamandan kwamandan Issa Pliyev kuma kwamandan sojan ruwa a cikin kungiyar sojojin Soviet da aka gabatar a Cuba (Operation Anadyr). A cewar wani asusun, ya kasance a kan yin amfani da karfi nan da nan a lokacin rikici. An ce ya jinkirta umarnin ƙaddamar da makami mai linzami na Soviet a lokacin tashin hankali kuma ya zama ɗaya daga cikin mutanen da suka ba da gudummawa wajen hana yaƙin nukiliya. Ya yi ritaya a wannan shekarar kuma ya mutu daga bugun jini a Leningrad a shekarar 1982.