Early Life and Career
Konstantin Ozgan was born May 15, 1939 in the village of Lykhny in the Gudauta district. In Soviet times, Ozgan was the first secretary of the Gudauta Raikom and later chairman of the Abkhaz Oblast Soviet. He has been accused by Georgian intellectuals of being responsible for the July 1989 clashes in Sukhumi, in which 25 people died.
From 1991 until 1996, Ozgan was a member of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia.
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