Tornike Kadeishvili is a Georgian topologist and one of the pioneers of using -algebras in algebraic topology. See also Kadeishvili's theorem.
T. V. Kadeishvili, On the theory of homology of fiber spaces, (Russian) International Topology Conference (Moscow State Univ., Moscow, 1979). Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 35 (1980), no. 3 (213), 183–188. Translated in Russ. Math. Surv. 35 (1980), no. 3 (238) 231–211
Tornike V. Kadeishvili, The structure of the A(∞)-algebra, and the Hochschild and Harrison cohomologies, (Russian) Trudy Tbiliss. Mat. Inst. Razmadze Akad. Nauk Gruzin. SSR 91 (1988) 19–27. MR91a:18016