Baghdati
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Baghdati ბაღდათი |
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 Georgia
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| Region : | Imereti | ||
| Municipality : | Baghdati | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 5 ' N , 42 ° 50' E | ||
| Height : | 250 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 3,707 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | Georgian Time (UTC + 4) | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
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Baghdati ( Georgian ბაღდათი ) is a city in the western central part of Georgia , in the region of Imereti . It is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name Baghdati and has 3707 inhabitants (as of 2014).
location
The place is located about 170 kilometers as the crow flies west-northwest of the capital Tbilisi and almost 25 kilometers south-southeast of the regional capital Kutaisi on the southeast edge of a plain formed by the Rioni , the most important river in western Georgia. At Baghdati, the left Rioni tributary Chaniszqali emerges from its narrow, wooded valley into the plain, which it cut into the 1500 m high mountains of the Ajar-Imereti (also Mescheti) mountain range of the Lesser Caucasus .
history
The old imeretic village of Baghdati, whose name is likely to have the same Persian origins as the name of the Iraqi capital Baghdad (for example "Gift of God"), was under the Russian form of the name Bagdadi during the time Georgia belonged to the Russian Empire and later to the Soviet Union ( Russian Багдади ) known.
In 1940 it was renamed Mayakovsky (Georgian მაიაკოვსკი ) after his most famous son, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky , who was born there in 1893 in the family of a Russian forest official . In the 1960s, the place was elevated to an urban-type settlement , and in 1981 it was finally granted city rights.
In 1990 the original place name was restored.
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1959 | 4586 |
| 1970 | 4609 |
| 1979 | 4831 |
| 1989 | 5465 |
| 2002 | 4714 |
| 2014 | 3707 |
Note: 1959–2002 census data, 2009 calculation
Culture and sights
Baghdati has a Vladimir Mayakovsky museum and a folk theater.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930), Russian poet
Economy and Infrastructure
In Baghdati there is a furniture factory as well as companies in the food industry (canned food, wine). Forestry is practiced in the wooded area.
The regional road that leads from Kutaisi up the valley of the Chaniszqali leads through Baghdati, over the 2180 m high Sekara pass (Georgian ზეკარის უღელტეხილი , Sekaris ugheltechili ) , crosses the main ridge of the Mescheti Mountains and continues over the health resort Abastumani to Akhaltsikhe , capital of the southern neighboring region of Samtskhe-Javakheti , runs. The nearest train station is in Kutaisi.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population Census 2014 ( Memento from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Article Baghdati (under "Mayakovsky") in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)