In August 1991, just after the Soviet coup attempt, Gamsakhurdia sacked Tengiz Kitovani, the commander of Georgia's National Guard, and his Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua resigned around the same time.

Initially it was led by a triumvirate of Jaba Ioseliani, Tengiz Sigua and Tengiz Kitovani, but it was soon chaired by Eduard Shevardnadze, the former Communist leader who returned to Tbilisi in March 1992.

Tengiz Kitovani

The confrontation between pro-and anti-Gamsakhurdia factions quickly degenerated into a series of strikes and armed clashes, and eventually, Kitovani, joined by Gamsakhurdia ’ s former Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua and the paramilitary leader Jaba Ioseliani, launched a violent coup in December 1991.

After spending some time in Russia, Kitovani returned to Tbilisi and, together with Tengiz Sigua and Boris Kakubava, leader of a faction of ethnic Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia, founded the National Front for the Liberation of Abkhazia in the autumn of 1994.

On January 13, 1995, Kitovani, with the support of Tengiz Sigua, led a force of some 700 lightly armed supporters in a march against Abkhazia.

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During the election campaign, on August 15, supporters of Ankvab's opponent Sergei Shamba organized an outdoor screening of a video interview of Moscow-based retired Georgian general Tengiz Kitovani, a Georgian commander during the 1990s war in Abkhazia, in which he claimed that Ankvab had cooperated with the Georgian intelligence service during the conflict.

The opposition to Gamsakhurdia, now joined in an uneasy coalition behind former Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua and the National Guard leader Tengiz Kitovani demanded that Gamsakhurdia resign and call new parliamentary elections.

Along with the National Guard leader Tengiz Kitovani and the paramilitary leader Jaba Ioseliani, he became a leader of the uneasy opposition which launched a violent coup against the President in December 1991-January 1992.

The writer Boris Akunin and philosopher Tengiz Tsereteli were born in Zestafoni.

Tengiz Sigua ( born 1934 ) is a Georgian politician and former Prime Minister of the country.

The city is a hub for the oil-rich Caspian Depression ; because of this, many oil wells have been drilled in the Tengiz Field and Kashagan Field areas.

Tengiz field ( Tengiz is Turkic for " sea ") is an oil and gas field located in northwestern Kazakhstan's low-lying wetlands along the northeast shores of the Caspian Sea.

Sizewise, Tengiz reservoir is wide and long Discovered in 1979, Tengiz oil field is one of the largest discoveries in recent history.

The city of Atyrau, north of Tengiz, is the main transport hub of Tengiz oil.

Tengiz is operated by Tengizchevroil, a 40 year partnership planning to produce billions of barrels of oil from the field.

Kashagan, which is located approximately west of Tengiz and is world's largest discovery in the last 30 years, and Tengiz combined, compete with the of the US oil reserves.

Estimated at up to of oil originally in place, Tengiz is the sixth largest oil field in the world ; recoverable crude oil reserves from Tengiz and Korolev fields combined have been estimated at.

Oil from the Tengiz field is primarily routed to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium ( CPC ) project.

It is the busiest oil port in the Black Sea and the terminus of the pipeline from the Tengiz Field, developed by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.

A large part of the province is situated in the oil-rich Caspian Depression ; because of this, many oil wells have been drilled in the Tengiz Field and Kashagan Field areas.

In the film, Connex-Killen is loosely based on ExxonMobil and their deal for the Tengiz oil field in 2003.

This is evidenced by the Ghawar supergiant oil field ( Saudi Arabia ); the Panhandle Field in Kansas ( United States ), which also produces helium ; the Tengiz Field ( Kazakhstan ); the White Tiger Field ( Vietnam ); and innumerable others.

( Comedy, directed by Tengiz Abuladze, cast in the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union )

* Repentance ( film ), Georgian film directed by Tengiz Abuladze

Tengiz Abuladze (; January 31, 1924 in Kutaisi — March 6, 1994 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian film director.

* Abuladze, Tengiz, The Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.

This objective became particularly important after 1990, when it was learned that Gorbachev had negotiated an agreement with Chevron, an American oil company, to develop Kazakhstan's Tengiz oil fields.

They landed on a freezing Lake Tengiz, 8 km from shore, in the middle of a blizzard, with fog and temperatures at-22 C. It was the first splashdown by a Soviet crew.

* Drama on Tengiz Lake ( in Russian ) with photos

The violations included a slow progress in dealing with vast sulfur stocks at Tengiz.

A stand-off followed because former National Guard leader Tengiz Kitovani's armed supporters withdrew to the outskirts of Tbilisi where they remained until late December 1991 when the power struggle intensified with the opposition claiming that President Gamsakhurdia had left no chance to peaceful settlement of the crisis.

The joint venture was formed in April 1993, when the Kazakh government granted an exclusive 40-year right to Tengizchevroil ( TCO ) to develop the Tengiz and Korolevskoye oil fields located in the north-eastern reaches of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan.

* Defeated Tengiz Meskhadze ( Georgia ) 10-4

:* First Round — Defeated Tengiz Meskhadze ( Georgia ), 10-4

Kakabadze, Sargis – Kakheti – Kaladze, Kakha – Kancheli, Giya – Kartli – Kartl-Kakheti – Kartveli, Alexander – Kaskians-Kasrashvili, Makvala – Keda, Georgia – Kelesh Bey, Prince of Abkhazia – Kereselidze, Leo – Ketevan the Martyr – Khadjimba, Raul – Khashba, Nodar – Khevsureti – Khizanishvili, Zurab – Kingdom of Abkhazia-Kingdom of Kakheti-Kingdom of Kartli-Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti-Kingdom of Georgia-Kitovani, Tengiz – Kmara – Kobuleti – Kodori Valley – Kokkai – Kokoity, Eduard – Kostava, Merab – Kutaisi – Kvinitadze Giorgi

Screeve – Shakryl, Tamara – Shalikashvili, John-Shamba, Sergey – Shartava, Zhiuli – Shaumyan, Stepan – Shaw, Peter – Shevardnadze, Eduard-Shida Kartli – Shorapani – Shota Rustaveli State Prize – Shota Rustaveli – Shuakhevi – Shushanik – Siege of Phasis-Sien – Sigua, Tengiz – Since Otar Left – Sissaouri, Guivi – Solomon I of Imereti – Solomon II of Imereti – South Caucasian languages – South Caucasus – South Ossetia – Soviet Union – Stalin, Joseph – Subdivisions of Georgia – Sukhumi – Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia – Svan language – Svaneti

In 1698 Galdan's successor Tsewen Rabtan reached Tengiz lake and Turkestan, and the Zunghars controlled Zhei-Su Tashkent until 1745.