On 23-26 April 2014 at the invitation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia a delegation of Polish scientists visited Tbilisi. Among them, there were representatives of the Institute of National Remembrance, Prof. Krzysztof Szwagrzyk, Commissioner of the IPN President responsible for exploration of unknown burial places of victims of the Communist terror 1944-1956, Dr. Rafał Leśkiewicz, Director of the IPN Archives and a representative of the Medical University of Wrocław  Dr. Łukasz Szleszkowski.

The main purpose of the visit was to share Polish experience in conducting exhumation work by the Institute of National Remembrance. In addition future archival cooperation between the IPN and the Ministry of Internal Affairs was discussed.

The interest in IPN exhumation work is due to the fact that the search for unknown burial sites is also carried out in Georgia. According to historical sources, the purges of the Great Terror in the years 1937-1939 and the Georgian Uprising of 1924 claimed 10 thousand victims. However, the search for burial sites in Georgia is not as advanced as in Poland. It is only at the initial stage of archival research. So far, graves of the victims have not been found. Hence the great interest in the work being done in Poland, especially regarding the search methodology and forensic and medical examination of the remains.