Minadora Orjonikidze

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Minadora Orjonikidze

| native_name = {{native name|ka|მინადორა ორჯონიკიძე|italics=no}}

| image = Ordzhenikidze Minadora.jpg

| nationality = Georgian

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1879|3|14}}

| birth_place = Ghoresha, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1967|10|19|1879|3|14}}

| death_place = Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR

| party = Social Democratic Party of Georgia (Georgian Mensheviks)

| occupation = Physician

| spouse = Malakia Toroshelidze

}}

Minadora Orjonikidze ({{lang-ka|მინადორა ორჯონიკიძე;}} 14 March 1879 — 19 October 1967) was a Georgian politician, active in the Democratic Republic of Georgia and its Constituent Assembly. Trained as a physician at the University of Geneva, Orjonikidze became familiar with Marxism while there, and married Malakia Toroshelidze, a fellow Georgian Marxist while studying there. On their return to Georgia Orjonikidze became an active member of the revolutionary movement, though with the 1905 split between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks she follow the majority of Georgians and became a Menshevik.{{cite web|url=http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00009463/|title=მინადორა ორჯონიკიძე-ტოროშელიძე|trans-title=Minadora Orjonikidze-Toroshelidze|publisher=National Parliamentary Library of Georgia|accessdate=19 July 2019}} When the Georgian Democratic Republic declared independence on 26 May 1918 Orjonikidze was one of five women who signed the declaration, and was elected to the Constituent Assembly.{{cite web|url=https://jam-news.net/founding-mothers/|title=The five women who crafted the Georgian constitution|last=Ugrekhelidze|first=Mariam|date=8 March 2018|publisher=Jam-News.net|accessdate=19 July 2019}}

After the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921 she was active in the anti-Bolshevik movement, but was exiled to Moscow in 1924 after an uprising in Georgia. Arrested again in the 1930s, her husband and two sons were shot while she was exiled to the Kazakh SSR. Released from detainment in 1950, she returned to Georgia, and was rehabilitated in 1956. Orjonikidze died in 1967. Her cousin was Sergo Ordzhonikidze, who would become a prominent Bolshevik and close ally of Joseph Stalin.{{cite book|last=Montefiore|first=Simon Sebag|authorlink=Simon Sebag Montefiore|title=Young Stalin|year=2007|publisher=Phoenix|location=London|isbn=978-0-297-85068-7}}