Charagauli Municipality

Charagauli Municipality
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Basic data
Country	Georgia
region	Imereti
Seat	Charagauli
surface	914 km²
Residents	19,473 (2014)
density	21 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	GE-IM
Website	kharagauli.ge (Georgian)

Coordinates: 42 ° 0 '  N , 43 ° 12'  E

The municipality Charagauli ( Georgian ხარაგაულის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Charagaulis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the east of the Imereti region in the central part of Georgia .

geography

The administrative center of the municipality Charagauli is the eponymous minor city (Georgian daba , დაბა ) Charagauli (formerly Ordschonikidze ). The area is 914 km².

From the west to the northeast, the municipality of Kharagauli is bounded by the imeretic municipalities of Baghdati , Sestaponi , Chiatura and Sachchere , to the east by the municipalities of Khashuri of the Inner Cartlia region and to the south by the municipalities of Akhaltsikhe and Borjomi of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region .

The territory of the municipality is mountainous: the southern part is occupied by the eastern end of the Meschetian Mountains with the 2642  m high Samezchwario in the extreme southwest, the central and northern part is mainly wooded low mountain range with the Dsirula ridge up to 1500  m high, which in the East to northeast into the Surami and Lichi Mountains . The most important rivers are the left Qwirila tributary Dsirula in the northern part and its left tributary Tschcherimela , which flows through the central part of the municipality with the administrative center; Most of the villages are in the two river valleys.

The northern half of the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park occupies the southern part of the municipality .

Population and administrative division

With 19,473 inhabitants (2014), the population has fallen by almost a third compared to the previous census (27,885 inhabitants in 2002), which is the second highest value within the region and twice the national average. Before that, the number of inhabitants had declined more slowly but continuously since at least the 1930s (41,363 inhabitants in 1939).

Population development

Note: census data

The population is almost mono-ethnic Georgian (about 99.4%); there are also a small number of Russians and Armenians .

The largest localities besides the main town Charagauli (1965 inhabitants) are the villages Boriti , Chidari , Ghorescha , Kizchi , Leghwani and Wardsia (2014) with over 500 inhabitants each .

The municipality is divided into the independent minority Charagauli and 19 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 77 villages (two of which have no permanent residents):

local community	Number of towns	Population (2014)
Basaleti	4th	496
Boriti	8th	1934
Chewi	4th	1076
Chidari	1	598
Chunewi	5	1488
Ghoresha	1	767
Kizchi	5	1641
Tab	5	719
Leghwani	4th	1231
Moliti	7th	1054
Nadaburi	3 1	397
Parzchnali	4th	586
Saghandsile	6th	1296
Sargweschi	4 1	445
Sware	3	678
Wachani	3	700
Vardsia	1	959
Zipa	4th	547
Zqalaporeti	5	896

¹ of which a place without permanent residents

history

From the collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century until the 19th century, the area belonged virtually continuously to the Kingdom of Imereti . While Georgia was part of the Russian Empire and until the early years of the Soviet Union , it was part of the Ujesds Schorapani of the Kutais Governorate . 1930 alone was Rayon Kharagauli spun and 1932 after the revolutionary and Soviet politician Grigori (Sergo) Ordzhonikidze (Georgian (1886-1937) in Ordzhonikidze-Rayon ორჯონიკიძის რაიონი , Ordschoninidsis Raioni; Russian Орджоникидзевский район , Ordschonikidsewski rayon ) unbenanannt. From 1949 the administrative center, which had had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1944, also bore the name Ordzhonikidze . In 1989 Rajon and place were renamed. After the independence of Georgia in 1995, the Rajon was assigned to the newly formed region of Imereti and in 2006 it was converted into a municipality.

traffic

The most important traffic axes in Georgia run through the municipality: through the Dsirula valley in the north the international highway S1 ( ს 1 ) from Tbilisi to the Russian or Abkhazian border (on this section also European route 60 ), and through the Tschcherimela valley the railway line Poti - Tbilisi (- Baku) .

The railway line crosses the border with the Inner Kartlien region in the east, which runs on the main watershed between the Black and Caspian Seas , through the four-kilometer-long Surami tunnel . The S1 trunk road, the expansion of which is planned to become a motorway, crosses the Rikotitunnel a few kilometers further north ; over the eponymous 996  m high Rikotipass runs as an alternative route the national road Sch56 ( შ 56 ).

The railway line follows through the Tschcherimela valley with the administrative seat of Charagauli on the much poorer developed national road Sch55 ( შ 55 ), which crosses the 949  m high Suramipass in the east , which the railway line also overcame from its commissioning in 1872 to the opening of the tunnel in 1890. The national road Sch101 ( შ 101 ) leads from Charagauli through the western part of the municipality and further in the direction of Sestaponi .

Web links

Commons : Charagauli Municipality  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Municipality of Kharagauli (Georgian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. (English) 
2. ↑ Population Census 2002 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. (English)