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Mikhail Berulava MP
Михаил Берулава მიხეილ ბერულავა
Berulava at a State Duma plenary session, dated 4 November 2019
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat)
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 April 2019
Preceded by	Zhores Alferov
In office 21 December 2011 – 5 October 2016
Personal details
Born	(1950-08-03) 3 August 1950 (age 74) Sukhumi, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, USSR
Political party	Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Spouse	Galina Berulava [ru]
Children	1 son 1 daughter
Education	Chelyabinsk Mechanization and Agricultural Electrification Institute (EdD, DSc)
Occupation	Professor
Awards	Order of Friendship (2008) Order of Honour (2016)

Mikhail Nikolaevich Berulava (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Берулава; Georgian: მიხეილ ნიკოლოზის-ძე ბერულავა; born 3 August 1950, Sukhumi) is a Russian scientist and politician. He is the Deputy of the State Duma of Russia, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), and is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education. Doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor, and academician of the Russian Academy of Education.^{[clarification needed]} Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Education.

Berulava was born on 3 August 1950 in Sukhumi, at the time the capital of the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, but is now the capital of the partially recognized Abkhazia.^[1] In 1978, he graduated from the Chelyabinsk Mechanization and Agricultural Electrification Institute, which is now part of South-Ural State Agrarian University [ru].^[2]

He became a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences in 1982 and a Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences in 1989, working in various academic and education administrative since the mid-1980s. He is the editor-in-chief of "Humanization of Education" and "Herald of the Russian Academy of Education University".^[3]

Berulava was a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2010. In the 2011 Russian legislative election, he received a deputy mandate in the 6th State Duma on the list of the CPRF. In the 2016 election, the communist party lost 50 seats and his mandate was not renewed. However, the death of Russian Nobel laureate and politician Zhores Alferov in 2019 brought Berulava back to the State Duma to fill his vacant seat.^[3] In the 2021 election, he was re-elected for the 8th State Duma.^[2]

Berulava was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 concerning the Russo-Ukrainian War. ^[4]

Order of Friendship (March 11, 2008)

• «Basics of Modern Education» (North American University Press, 2008., 117 p.)

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