Jvari (city)
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Jvari ჯვარი |
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 Georgia
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| Region : | Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti | ||
| Municipality : | Zalendjikha | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 43 ' N , 42 ° 3' E | ||
| Height : | 280 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 763 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | Georgian Time (UTC + 4) | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
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Jvari ( Georgia ჯვარი ) is a city in the northwest of Georgia , in the region Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti . It belongs to the municipality of Zalendzhikha and with 763 inhabitants (2014) is the smallest city in Georgia today.
location
The place is about 250 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the capital Tbilisi and 30 kilometers northeast of the regional capital Zugdidi on the northern edge of the Colchian Plain in the foothills of the Greater Caucasus , which rises a few kilometers northeast of the city to over 2000 m altitude. Two kilometers west of Jvari, the Enguri River marks the border with Abkhazia .
history
The old Mingrelian village Jvari (the name means " cross ") was expanded with the construction of the Enguri dam five kilometers north of the town at the end of the 1960s by a construction workers' settlement of the same name; this received the status of an urban-type settlement . In 1981 she was granted city rights.
As a result of administrative redesign in the 2000s, part of the city was added to the original village, which increased its population to over 3,000 (2014 census). At the same time, two smaller villages, Naka and Otschane, were spun off; as a result, as well as the general population decline, as in almost all parts of the country, the population of the actual city fell by over 80%.
The city of Jvari is now the administrative seat of a territorial body of the same name (Georgian ჯვარის ტერიტორიული ორგანო , Jwaris teritoriuli organo ) with 4,361 inhabitants (2014), which also includes the three named villages.
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1970 | 4458 |
| 1979 | 4837 |
| 1989 | 4970 |
| 2002 | 4790 |
| 2014 | 768 |
Note: census data
Sons and daughters of the place
- Meliton Kantaria (1920-1993), a soldier in the Red Army , 1945 as one of the first Soviet flag on the Reichstagsgebäude hoisted
- Egnate Pipia (1901–1979), surgeon and academician
Economy and Infrastructure
Marble is being quarried not far from the town . There was a tea factory in the Soviet period .
Jvari was endpoint of a 34-kilometer railway line , which at the station Ingiri of the route Senaki-Adler branches off and extends in 2017 until in the region capital Zugdidi. The line was opened in 1965 in preparation for the construction of the Enguri dam. The road that runs from Zugdidi up the Enguri to the main town of Svaneti Mestia also runs through Jvari .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population Census 2014 ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Article Jvari in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)