Giorgi Eliava, born in 1892, made a real breakthrough in the 1920s, in Paris, while working at the Pasteur Institute and became a co-author of unique researches together with D’Hérelle. In 1923 he founded the Institute of Bacteriophage in Tbilisi; while equipment worth of francs 100,000 were received from France free of charge. In 1937, the “grateful” Soviet regime shot him and his wife blaming him in “spying in favor of France” and “attempting to provoke an epidemic among Soviet people”.

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