Gardabani

Gardabani (Georgian გარდაბანი ) is a city in southeast Georgia, in the region of Lower Kartli ( Kvemo Kartli ). It is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality has about 14,100 inhabitants and Gardabani ( 2009).

The city is located in an inhabited a considerable degree of Azerbaijanis of Georgia. In the area of the municipality in 2002 nearly 44 % of the population Azerbaijanis about 70 % were Azerbaijanis ( 53% Georgians ), in the city itself, 2006 (2006).

Location

Gardabani is located about 40 kilometers in a straight line southeast of the center of the country's capital, Tbilisi, and a good 10 kilometers south-east of the regional capital of Rustavi, in the River Kura (Georgian Mtkvari ) created level (Georgian გარდაბნის ვაკე, Gardabnis Wake " level of Gardabani " ) about five kilometers from its left bank away. The border with Azerbaijan runs about ten miles southeast of downtown.

History

Until the 20th century it received the name of Azerbaijani Karajasy ( Russian form, after attraction in the nearby medieval fortress of Karatepe, Azerbaijani Qaratəpə ). 1947 took place renaming in the Georgian Gardabani and awarded the status of a rural settlement.

In the 1960s, the site was chosen as the site for the Tbilisi thermal power plant (Russian Tibilisskaja GRES ), which was a few kilometers west. As a result, the population of the town grew rapidly, so that in 1969 the town rights.

Note: 1970-2002 census data, in 2009 calculation

Economy and infrastructure

In addition to the thermal power plant, which supplies the nearby city of Rustavi, with its steel plant and the capital Tbilisi with electricity and some with district heating, there are companies in the food ( canned food) and light industry and building materials industry. The city is surrounded by a major agricultural area that is crisscrossed by irrigation canals.

On the northern outskirts of Gardabani located at the coming of Poti -Tbilisi mainline railway Geeorgischen the frontier station to Azerbaijan. Road connection is in the direction of Rustavi and further to the villages left the Kura to the Azerbaijani border.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Gocha Dschamarauli ( b. 1971 ), the Georgian footballer
  • Mariam Kewchischwili (* 1985), Georgian putter
  • Eşqin Quliyev (* 1990), Azerbaijani footballers
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