Chochatauri
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Chochatauri ჩოხატაური |
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 Georgia
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| Region : | Guria | ||
| Municipality : | Chochatauri | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 1 ' N , 42 ° 14' E | ||
| Height : | 235 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 1,815 (2014) | ||
| Time zone : | Georgian Time (UTC + 4) | ||
| Community type: | Urban-type settlement | ||
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Chochatauri ( Georgian ჩოხატაური ) is a small town (Georgian Daba ) in western Georgia , in the Guria region . It is the administrative seat of the municipality of the same name, Chochatauri, and has about 1815 inhabitants (2014).
location
The place is a good 210 km as the crow flies west of the capital Tbilisi and a good 20 km northeast of the regional capital Osurgeti , in the upper (eastern) part of a wide valley through which the Supsa River flows 40 km west into the Black Sea . To the south of the valley, the Meschetian (or Adzharian-Imeretian) mountain range gradually rises to almost 2,800 m above sea level, while the valley in the north is separated from the Colchian lowlands by a low mountain range nearly 700 m high .
history
Since 1930 the administrative center of a Rajon of the Georgian SSR , the village of Chochatauri received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1947 (corresponding to today's daba , small town).
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1959 | 2622 |
| 1970 | 2136 |
| 1979 | 2361 |
| 1989 | 2633 |
| 2002 | 2123 |
| 2014 | 1815 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
In Chochatauri there is a local museum and a folk theater. In the territory of the municipality of be balneologic health resort Nabeglawi and in 2050 m height of the resort Bakhmaro .
Economy and Infrastructure
Tschochatauri is the center of an agricultural area with mainly wine and tea cultivation as well as dairy farming.
A road runs through the village, coming from Sadschawacho in the Colchis plain south of Samtredia , via Osurgeti to Kobuleti on the coastal road towards Adjara . In Sadschawacho, 20 kilometers to the north, there is also the closest train station on the Samtredia - Batumi line .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Tschitschiko Bendeliani ( ჭიჭიკო ბენდელიანი , 1914-1944), ace of the Red Army , Hero of the Soviet Union
Web links
- Article Tschochatauri in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- "Passport" of the Guria region on a website of the Georgian government (2007, Russian)