Russian club tbilisi

Tbilisi Kartlis Deda monument Russian club tbilisi 8855 1920. Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1. Because of its location on the crossroads between Europe and Asia, and its proximity to the lucrative Silk Road, throughout history Tbilisi was a point of contention among various global powers.

The city’s location to this day ensures its position as an important transit route for various energy and trade projects. Historically, Tbilisi has been home to people of multiple cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, though it is currently overwhelmingly Eastern Orthodox Christian. On 17 August 1936, by order of the Soviet leadership, the official Russian names of various cities were modified to more closely match the local language. Most other languages have subsequently adopted the new name form, but some language such as Turkish, Persian, Greek, and German have retained a variation of Tiflis. On 20 September 2006, the Georgian parliament held a ceremony celebrating the 70th anniversary of the renaming. Some of the traditional names of Tbilisi in other languages of the region have different roots.

Archaeological studies of the region have indicated human settlement in the territory of Tbilisi as early as the 4th millennium BC. According to legend, the present-day territory of Tbilisi was covered by forests as late as 458. King Dachi of Iberia, the successor of Vakhtang I, moved the capital of Iberia from Mtskheta to Tbilisi. During his reign began construction of the fortress wall that lined the city’s new boundaries. Detail from the Nautical chart by Angelino Dulcert, depicting Georgian Black Sea coast and Tiflis, 1339.

Tbilisi’s favorable trade location, however, did not necessarily bode well for its survival. Tbilisi’s “Golden Age” did not last for more than a century. In 1226, Tbilisi was captured by the Khwarezmian Empire Shah Jalal ad-Din and its defences severely devastated and prone to Mongol armies. From the late 14th until the end of the 18th century, Tbilisi came under the rule of various foreign invaders once again and on several occasions was completely burnt to the ground. In 1386, Tbilisi was invaded by the armies of Tamerlane.

Building of the current Art Museum of Georgia, built at the end of the 1830s, photo ca. Tatar bazaar and with the Metekhi Orthodox church seen on the cliff. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the city served as a location of the Transcaucasus interim government which established, in the spring of 1918, the short-lived independent Transcaucasian Federation with the capital in Tbilisi. Under the national government, Tbilisi turned into the first Caucasian University City after the Tbilisi State University was founded in 1918. The Red Army entered Tbilisi on 25 February 1921. Tbilisi witnessed mass anti-Russian demonstrations during 1956 in the 9 March Massacre, in protest against the anti-Stalin policies of Nikita Khrushchev. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, Tbilisi has experienced periods of significant instability and turmoil.

After the war, several large-scale projects were started, including a streetcar system, a railway bypass and a relocation of the central station and new urban highways. The City Assembly is elected once every four years. The mayor is elected once every four years by direct elections. This subdivision was established under Soviet rule in the 1930s, following the general subdivision of the Soviet Union. Most of the raions are named after historic quarters of the city. The citizens of Tbilisi widely recognise an informal system of smaller historic neighbourhoods.

Such neighbourhoods are several, however, constituting a kind of hierarchy, because most of them have lost their distinctive topographic limits. The natural first level of subdivision of the city is into the Right Bank and the Left Bank of the Mt’k’vari. On the right bank of the Kurá is the Russian Quarter, the seat of the officials and of the larger business firms. This is adjoined on the south by the Armenian and Persian Bazaars.