Lanchkhuti

Lantschchuti (Georgian ლანჩხუთი ) is a town in western Georgia, in the region of Guria. It is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality Lantschchuti and has about 7,500 inhabitants ( 2009).

Location

The village is located about 230 miles as the crow flies west of the state capital Tbilisi and almost 20 kilometers north of the regional capital Osurgeti from which it is separated by a 500 m high mountain range. From the coast of the Black Sea Lantschchuti is about 25 kilometers away.

History

Lantschchuti received in the 1930s, when it was extended to the center of the agricultural area of southern Kolchisniederung, the status of an urban-type settlement. In 1961 the town rights.

Note: 1959-2002 census data, in 2009 calculation

Sports

Lantschchuti home to the football club Gurija Lantschchuti, who in 1987 was in the top division of the Soviet Union, the League Wysschaja represented.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Noe Schordania (1868-1953), journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia 1918-1921
• Vakhtang Blagidse (born 1954 ), wrestler, Olympic champion in 1980 and a multiple world champion

Twinning

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Economy and infrastructure

The main industry is food processing (tea, meat and dairy products, canned ).

By Lantschchuti lead the railway line and the highway of Samtredia to Batumi.