25. 12. 1918 (Samtredia) – 31. 10. 1971 (Moscow).

Georgian musicologist, theoretician. folklorist, Honored art Worker, candidate of Art Historian; led the pedagogical and scientific and field work at Tbilisi State Conservatoire.

Akhobadze’s main works:
Apkhazuri khalkhuri simgherebi (Abkhazian folk songs). (1956). Tbilisi: Tbilisi State Conservatoire (in Georgian And Abkhazian)
Kartuli Svanuri khalkhuri simgherebi (Georgian Svan folk songs). (1957). Tbilisi: Technika da Shroma (in Georgian and Russian)
Kartuli Acharuli khalkhuri simgherebis krebuli (Collection of Georgian Acharan folk songs). (1961). Tbilisi: Teknika da Shroma (in Georgian and Russian, with English resume)Forma kollektivnogo truda “nadi” i gruzinskaia narodnaia chetiriokhgolosnaia pesnia “Naduri” (A form of collective work “Nadi” and Georgian four-part folk song “Naduri”). (1965). Budapesht.
Gruzinskie narodnie trudovie pesni “Naduri” (Georgian folk work songs “Naduri”). (1964). VII International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnographical Sciences. Moscow: Nauka
Gruzinskie narodnie trudovie pesni “Naduri” (Georgian folk work songs “Naduri”). (1969). In the collection “Muzika stran Azii i Afriki” (Music of countries of Azia and Africa)