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Also Known As	Bagrat Wasil-ipa Shinkuba • Bagrat Vasilevich Shinkuba
Born	May 12, 1917 • Abkhazia • Georgia
Died	February 25, 2004 (aged 86) • Sokhumi • Georgia

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