yevgeny yakovlevich dzhugashvili (; 10 january 1936 – 22 december 2016) was a soviet air force colonel. he was the grandson soviet leader joseph stalin, and gained notice as a defender of his grandfather's reputation. in the 1999 elections of the russian state duma, he was one of the candidates of the stalin bloc – for the ussr, a league of communist parties. he lived in georgia, his grandfather's homeland. he also became known for suing a russian newspaper. he also critizized vladimir putin for publishing photographs which show him riding a horse with a naked torso.