Givi Agrba was a politician from Abkhazia.
Agrba was born on 4 April 1937 in the village of Kulanyrchua, Gudauta District. He attended school in Lykhny and studied in the philological faculty of the Sukhumi Pedagogical Institute.
Agrba became Minister of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia in 1993, after the war with Georgia. On 2 June 1996, President Ardzinba dismissed him for unsatisfactory work, replacing him with the head of his own security office Almasbei Kchach. From 1996 until 2002, Agrba was Deputy Defence Minister and Chief of the General Staff. He was awarded the rank of Major in 1996 and Lieutenant General in 1998. He subsequently became advisor to President Ardzinba on Military Matters, and on 2 April 2003, was appointed was appointed Head of the State Security Service, replacing Zurab Agumava. On 15 June 2004, Agrba handed in his resignation along with Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba and First Vice Premier Astamur Tarba following the murder of opposition politician Garri Aiba. President Ardzinba accepted Agrba's resignation on 7 July and replaced him with Mikhail Tarba.
Kivi (Persian: گيوئ or گیوی, also Romanized as Kīvī; also known as Givi) is a city in and capital of Kowsar County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 6,467, in 1,721 families. Earlier, Kivi was divided into upper and lower Kivi: düz kıvı (کیوی بالا) and aşaği kıvı (كيوی پائين).
Kivi is situated in the center of new established county (one of the five regions of Khalkhal historic and separated from Khalkhal County in previous decade), with 1,243.8 square kilometres (480.2 sq mi) area borders with Ardabil City from north, with Khlakhal (Hiroabad) Town from south and with Talesh (Hashpar) Town (Gilan Province) from east and with Miyaneh (Miyana) from west.
Kivi town constitutes 7 percent of the area of the Ardabil province. Bajilar Daghlari (which means The Sisters Mountains in Azeri Turkic) extend between Kivi and Miyaneh. Kivi Town is situated in a mountainous region, with temperate mountainous climate on the west skirts of the Baghru (Talesh) Mountains. The average annual precipitation of the region exceeds 350 millimetres (14 in). Arpa-Chay, Givi-Chay, Sangava (Sangour) Chay are the important rivers of the town which join to Qiziluzan river in the borders Miyaneh.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Tolstykh (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Толсты́х), better known by his callsign Givi (Ги́ви), is a commander in the pro-Russian separatist "Somali Battalion" (Russian: Батальон Сомали) in the War in Donbass. In an online interview, Givi claimed that he is from Ilovaisk and served in the Ukrainian Army from 1998 to 2000 before working at a sling rope factory. He is 35 as of October 2015; his civilian name is Mikhail Tolstykh. In an interview he stated that his great-grandfather was an ethnic Georgian.
He joined the separatists in the early stages of the war and was involved in the Battle of Ilovaisk. Givi led separatists in the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport. He received widespread fame in October 2014 when a video of him ignoring a rocket artillery strike landing near enough to him for shrapnel to fall at his feet was uploaded to YouTube and gained over 1,000,000 views.
On February 16, 2015, Mikhail Tolstykh was included by the European Council in the sanctions list.