Emil Adelkhanov

Emil Adelkhanov (born Emmanuil Steinberg, 11 August 1945, Vorkuta – 27 June 2016, Tbilisi) was a Georgian human rights activist, and a representative of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in Georgia.

Biography Emil Adelkhanov was born in Vorkutlag in a family of political prisoners. His father was Naum Steinberg (1914–1969), a Ukrainian linguist and Esperanto specialist. His mother was Arfenik Adelkhanova (1905–1950), an Armenian genocide survivor, whose family managed to flee from the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and settle in Tbilisi, and who later was involved in local politics. He was raised first by his grandfather, Shimon Steinberg, and after 1955 by his maternal aunt, Dekhtsanik Adelkhanova, who adopted two of her nephews and changed their names.

In 1969, Adelkhanov graduated from the philological faculty of Tbilisi State University, and started to work as an English translator.