Chokhatauri

Tschochatauri (Georgian ჩოხატაური ) is a small town (Georgian: daba ) in western Georgia, in the region of Guria. It is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality and has about 2200 inhabitants Tschochatauri (calculated 2006).

Location

The place is good 210 line kilometers west of the state capital, Tbilisi, and some 20 kilometers north-east of the regional capital Osurgeti, in the upper ( eastern ) part of a wide valley, which is crossed by 40 km west opens into the Black Sea River Supsa. Gradually the Meschetische (or Adscharisch - Imeretische ) mountain range south of the valley gradually rises to almost 2800 meters above sea level, while the valley is separated in the north from an almost 700 m high central ridge of the Colchis Plain.

History

Since 1930, the administrative center of a Rajons the Georgian SSR, received the village Tschochatauri 1947 the status of an urban-type settlement ( according to today's daba, small town ).

Note: 1959-2002 Census data

Culture and sights

In Tschochatauri there is a local history museum and a popular theater. On the territory of the municipality there are balneotherapy spa town of Nabeglawi and in 2050 m altitude, the resort Bakhmaro.

Economy and infrastructure

Tschochatauri is the center of an agricultural region with vorwiegendem cultivation of wine, tea and dairy farming.

Through the village, a road leads to the south Samtredia continues over Osurgeti after Kobuleti of Sadschawacho in Kolchisebene coming on the coast road in the direction of Adjara. In the 20 km northern Sadschawacho located on the route Samtredia - Batumi also the nearest railway station.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Tschitschiko Bendeliani ( ჭიჭიკო ბენდელიანი, 1914-1944 ), ace of the Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union
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