Bagrat Shinkuba
Bagrat Shinkuba on a 1999 stamp of Abkhazia
Native name	Баграҭ Уасыл-иҧа Шьынқәба
Born	(1917-05-12)May 12, 1917 Chlou, Ochamchira District, Sukhum Okrug, Kutais Governorate, Imperial Russia
Died	February 25, 2004(2004-02-25) (aged 86) Sukhum, Republic of Georgia
Notable works	Chanta's Arrival (1968) The Last of the Departed (1974)

Bagrat Uasyl-ipa Shinkuba ^[a] (12 May 1917 – 25 February 2004) was an Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician. He studied history and languages of Abkhaz, Adyghe and Ubykh people. A prolific poet, Bagrat Shinkuba published First Songs, his first volume of poetry in 1935. ^[1] His novel The Last of the Departed is dedicated to the tragic destiny of Ubykh nation, which became extinct along a hundred of years. ^{[1] [2]}

From 1953 to 1958, he was chair of the Writer's Union of Abkhazia. From 1958 to 1978 he was the Chairman of the Supreme Council Presidium of the Abkhaz ASSR. ^[1]

• Bagrat Shinkuba. The Last of the Departed on Adyghe Library
• Иалкаау иоымтакуа, т. 1–2, Akya, 1967–68; в рус. пер. — Избранное. [Предисл. К. Симонова], М., 1976.

• Цвинариа В. Л., Творчество Б. В. Шинкуба, Тб., 1970 (in Russian).

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