Lanchuti
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lanchkhuti ლანჩხუთი |
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 Georgia
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| Region : | Guria | ||
| Municipality : | Lanchuti | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 5 ' N , 42 ° 2' E | ||
| Height : | 30 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 6,395 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | Georgian Time (UTC + 4) | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
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Lanchkhuti ( Georgian ლანჩხუთი ) is a city in western Georgia .
Geographical location
Lantschchuti is located in the Guria region about 230 kilometers west of the capital Tbilisi as the crow flies and about 20 kilometers north of the regional capital Osurgeti , from which it is separated by a mountain range over 500 m high. From the coast of the Black Sea , Lanchuti is about 25 kilometers away. The city has 6395 inhabitants (2014). It is the administrative seat of the Lanchchuti municipality .
history
In 1883 Lantschchuti received a station on the Poti / Batumi – Baku railway line . In the Soviet Union , Lanchuti was developed into the center of agriculture in the southern Colchis lowlands and received urban-type settlement status in the 1930s . In 1961 he was granted city rights.
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1959 | 6738 |
| 1970 | 7837 |
| 1979 | 6506 |
| 1989 | 9021 |
| 2002 | 7849 |
| 2014 | 6395 |
Note: census data
economy
The main branch of the economy is food processing (tea, meat and dairy products, canned food).
traffic
The trunk road from Samtredia to Batumi and the railway line Batumi – Tbilisi – Baku run through Lantschchuti .
Sports
Lantschchuti is home to the football club FC Guria Lantschchuti , which was represented in 1987 in the top division of the Soviet Union , the Wysschaja Liga .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Noe Schordania (1868–1953), journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia 1918–1921
- Wachtang Blagidse (* 1954), wrestler, Olympic champion in 1980 and multiple world champion
Town twinning
Cody , Wyoming , United States
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 Lanchuti in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)