Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Inauri ya ci gaba da aiki a matsayin kwamandan rundunar sojan doki har zuwa 1946. A shekarar 1948 ya kammala karatunsa daga Makarantar Janar na Voroshilov kuma ya dauki nauyin Rukunin Mechanized na 18 a matsayin wani ɓangare na sojojin Soviet a Jamus. A cikin 1951 ya ba da umurni ga rukunin 'yan bindiga na 9 kuma a watan Fabrairun 1953 ya karbi umurni a kan Rundunar' yan bindiga ta 3 na Karpathian Military District. A shekara ta 1954, an sanya Inauri shugaban KGB na Georgia, wani matsayi da ya riƙe har zuwa 1986. Daga baya a 1957, an ba shi mukamin Laftanar Janar. Zamaninsa ya zo daidai da jerin rikice-rikice, ciki har da tashin hankali na 1956
, da kuma haɓakar ƙungiyoyin 'yan adawa na Soviet a Georgia wanda Inauri ya iya amsawa da ƙarfi saboda yawanci saboda tsananin horo da ya sanya a cikin KGB da kuma babbar hanyar leken asiri ta hanyar da wakilan Inauri suka shiga cikin ƙungiyoyin' yan adawa har ma da Cocin Orthodox na Georgia. Ya taka muhimmiyar rawa a juyin mulkin fadar da aka yi wa Nikita Khrushchev a watan Oktoba na 1964, yana rakiyar shugaban Soviet daga datcha a Pitsunda zuwa wani taro na musamman na Shugaban kwamitin kwamitin tsakiya a Moscow inda za a kori Khrushchev. An daukaka Inauri zuwa mukamin Kanar Janar a shekarar 1967 kuma an ba shi lambar yabo ta Jarumin Tarayyar Soviet a shekarar 1985, jim kadan kafin ya yi ritaya daga baya a shekarar 1986. Daga 1984 zuwa 1989, Inauri ya kasance memba na Babban Soviet na Tarayyar Soviet.