Badra Gunba

Badra Zurabovich Gunba (; born 14 August 1981) is an Abkhazian politician who has been the sixth president of Abkhazia since 2025. He previously served as the seventh vice president under President Aslan Bzhania from 2020 to 2025.

Born in Sukhumi while it was part of the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Gunba was educated as an economist at the Saratov State Agrarian University. He became the Deputy Minister of Culture in 2009, and then Minister of Culture in 2011. In 2020, Bzhania selected Gunba to be his running mate for the 2020 presidential election where they both ran as Independents.

Bzhania eventually won the elections and he became president with Gunba becoming vice president on 23 March 2020. In November 2024, protests against Bzhania broke out and he resigned the presidency on 19 November and where Gunba became acting president. In 2025, Gunba ran for the presidential election held in March of that year where he won and was sworn in as president on 2 April.

Early life and education Badra Gunba was born in Sukhumi, Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, on 14 August 1981. He graduated from the Sokhumi State University in 1998, and became an economics teacher at the Abkhazian State University. In 2003, he graduated from Saratov State Agrarian University with a degree in accounting and auditing.

From December 2003 to August 2004, Gunba worked for the city government of Saratov as a specialist in its Department of Social Sphere and Apparatus Financing. He held different positions in the financial department of the city from March 2004 to February 2006. He received a PhD from Saratov State Agrarian University in 2007.

Abkhazia From January 2009 to October 2011, Gunba was the Deputy Minister of Culture and then as Minister of Culture from January 2011 to January 2014. He became Vice President of Abkhazia in 2020.

President Aslan Bzhania resigned in November 2024, after protestors seized control of government buildings. Gunba ascended to the presidency and defeated Adgur Ardzinba in the 2025 presidential election. Russia, which cut off electricity to Abkhazia after Bzhania's resignation, conducted election interference through Sergey Kiriyenko.

Gunba appointed Vladimir Delba as prime minister on 3 March 2025.

Personal life Gunba has two children with his wife.