 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Lakoba akadzokera kuAbkhazia muna 1921, mushure mekunge yatorwa neBolshevik Russia, sechikamu chekukunda kwayoreGeorgia. Pamwe chete naEshba naNikolai Akirtava, Lakoba aive mumwe wevakasaina teregiramu kuna Vladimir Lenin achizivisa kuumbwa kweSocialist Soviet Republic yeAbkhazia SSR Abkhazia iyo yakatanga kubvumidzwa kuvapo senyika yakazara yemubatanidzwa. A Revolutionary Committee Revkom, yakaumbwa uye inotungamirwa naEshba naLakoba mukugadzirira basa reBolshevik, yakatora kutonga kweAbkhazia. Revkom yakasiya basa musi wa 17 Kukadzi 1922, uye Lakoba akasarudzwa pamwe chete kuti ave Sachigaro weKanzuru yeVanhu Commissars, muviri wakaumbwa musi iwoyo, nokudaro zvinobudirira musoro weAbkhazia. Aizobata chinzvimbo ichi kusvika musi wa 17 Kubvumbi 1930, apo kanzuru yakabviswa ikatsiviwa nePresidium yeCentral Executive Committee, kunyangwe Lakoba aizochengeta chinzvimbo chepamusoro. Kunyange zvazvo airemekedzwa zvikuru nevamwe vake vechimurenga, Lakoba haana kumbobvira atora chinzvimbo chakakosha mukati meCommunist Party uye akaramba kuenda kumisangano ipi neipi, sezvo bato reAbkhaz raingova bazi rebato reGeorgia, pachinzvimbo chekushandisa yake patronage network kuzvisimbisa. 