Mestia, Svanétie Photos : Nicolas Landru
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
How To Create A Gallbladder Attack
Videos: Sheep farming in Shiraki Steppe, South Kakheti
Evening Mood in The Shiraki Steppe
Morning Mood in The Shiraki Steppe 
Evening Mood in The Shiraki Steppe
Morning Mood in The Shiraki Steppe
What The Best Way To Gain Mus
The Shiraki Steppe, Winter Pasture of The Tush
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The Tushs are themselves nowadays based in Alvani, Kakheti, at the feet of the Tushetian mountains. The families live there, whereas the shepherds spend a big part of their time in the mountains or in the steppe.
The sheep economy is still organized on a half feudal system. The more important families own their flock, their "Bina" (house) and some pasture land around. They are the "patrons" and employ lower-class compatriots, as well as Kists (Chechens from Georgia) or fellow mountain Georgians (Mtiuls, Pshavs) as shepherds or as farm-boys.
Except in the only village, Kasristskhari (or Eldari), where live real families, the Tushs, besides some closely related Pshavs and some Azeri shepherds, are a majority in the Steppe. As this pastoral way originates in a nomadic tradition of transhumances, their is almost no woman in the area.
Separating the two main plains of the region, the Vashlovani Range as been declared a national park and some parts of it are a strict natural reserve. With its picturesque "badlands" and canyons, it is a (almost unfrequented) touristic attraction. And could become a really visited one if the quasi not existence of roads in the region, as well as its remote wilderness, would not make it so difficult to reach. Though, it would then loose its picturesque charm.
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In the very South of the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, the Shiraki "plain" is traditionnally the winter pasture of shepherds from Tusheti (Greater Caucasus mountains). It was given to them by Kakhetian kings to thank them for their alliance against Persians. The flocks are brought in the summer into the mountains, and come back in this vast area of semi-desert, dry hilly ranges and agricultural plains the rest of the year.
The Tushs are themselves nowadays based in Alvani, Kakheti, at the feet of the Tushetian mountains. The families live there, whereas the shepherds spend a big part of their time in the mountains or in the steppe.
Except in the only village, Kasristskhari (or Eldari), where live real families, the Tushs, besides some closely related Pshavs and some Azeri shepherds, are a majority in the Steppe. As this pastoral way originates in a nomadic tradition of transhumances, their is almost no woman in the area.
The Shiraki Steppe
Pictures: Nicolas Landru
Monday, March 22, 2010
Blueprints For Sims 2 Houses Mansion
The Forgotten sanatoria of Tskhaltubo, a Picture Gallery by Birgit Kuch and Nicolas Landru
Tskhaltubo, Birgit Kuch
Tskhaltubo, Birgit Kuch A lost, once prestigious, sanatoria complex in Imeretia, Western Georgia, which gives the weird impression of a Stalinist temples resort in the jungle...
See, in English: The Forgotten Sanatoria of Tskhaltubo, Imeretia
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
What Basketball Jersey Size Should I Buy?
Gudauri Khevi. A ski resort and a great point of View on the Caucasus
The Levi Range
The Levi Range
The Kazbek Massive
Young guys drinking
The Gudamakharo Range
View from the pistes
View from the pistes
Monday, March 15, 2010
Sample Copy Of A Vote Of Thanks For Wedding
Imedi TV: The Russians invade Georgia, Saakashvili murdered - a hoax that is funny yellow
Article published in the 15/03/2010 caucaz.com
By Nicolas LANDRU Tbilisi
Tbilisi, 20h. Many Georgians have been sweating this Saturday, March 13, 2010, if they have not turned their television well in advance. The newspaper's evening television channel Imedi (Hope) has been replaced for ½ hour by fake newspaper announcing a new Russian invasion, the bombing large cities, and finally the assassination of President Mikheil Saakashvili. Appraisal: panic, telephone networks saturated, looting a gas station in Gori's ... domestic and international criticism, and a shock to the political opposition pulled out of hibernation and forced to open sooner than expected its new season Challenges.
The hoax of a pro-government television is a new and strange avatar of the media and political life in this Caucasus country accustomed to twists repeated over two years. Population, still scarred by the war in August 2008, responded to heat. While the authorities have an ambiguous reaction vis-à-vis the case, Western diplomats are blaming the chain, which has apologized hot but firmly reiterated its intention and defended his false log thereafter.
"how events may develop if the company does not consolidate against the plans of Russia
As announced by the presenter Natia Koberidzé, the sense of providing a falsified version Log 20h "Kronika" is clear: if the Georgians do not gather around the government, the Russians take over the country. The newspaper is false explain this ad full of allusions: they speak of two opposition leaders, Nino Burjanadze and Zurab Noghaideli (who recently visited the Kremlin), leading demonstrations after the victory of power in place mayor of Tbilisi. The Russians use disorders induced to invade Georgia, and finally come to kill the president.
The argument that national cohesion is a central element of the anti-opposition rhetoric developed by the regime since the wave of turmoil party in fall 2007. He allowed Mikheil Saakashvili to end the demonstrations on November 7 by introducing a state of emergency and, on several occasions to embarrass his opponents. The war in August 2008 having realized the danger alleged, had opposition row behind the president during the conflict, then kills himself before giving up his attacks in the spring 2009 season for a heavy challenge. The elections for mayor of Tbilisi to be held in May-June 2010 may well see a new wave of endless events paralyze the streets of Tbilisi. In itself, the false newspaper is a point on the "i" even before the opposition, almost absent during the winter, could not make its comeback.
The spokesman of the government visited the headquarters of Imedi shortly after the publication of fake newspaper to issue a formal critique of this action, predictably unpopular, and several members of the presidential majority have strongly condemned the event. But the personal reaction of President Saakashvili, Sunday, March 14, is more ambiguous. Far from commenting on the shape of the event and after briefly Imedi criticized for not scrolling caption indicating it was a fake, the Georgian president has mainly dwelt on the fact that this scenario was "near to the maximum of reality."
"The enemy of Georgia has begun to show a very bad movie for Georgia in August 2008 but we stopped the film, although we know that the director continues to write the script of the screenplay, which is close what we saw yesterday, "he said when asked about the event. How to support the project even a Log-apocalyptic fiction and prognosis. By going to praise the adequacy of the hoax with reality as regards the opponent Nino Burjanadze, pointing that she went to meet Putin in Moscow and hammering by this act proves that she has "no dignity, "the Georgian president does absolutely not sought to remove the suspicion that the spread of fake newspaper is from above, in the government.
"The situation is too tragic for a hoax"
Giorgi, civil society activist who attended the event and spontaneous nocturnal launched against the television channel, knows the hoax broadcast by Belgian television RTBF 13 December 2006, which heralded the disintegration of the Belgian state. Identical formula, may have even speak of an exact copy: ½ hour of fake newspaper where only finer points of detail can leave understanding the deception (here, a brief mention of dates in June 2010 and the holding of municipal elections); all in the format of a special edition, followed by a discussion. A hot topic and an extreme scenario but are likely the key to a formula in which the viewer uninformed will believe almost certainly. But Giorgi, the similarity ends there. "In Belgium, there was no loss of life. There have been no war a year and a half earlier, and we did not announce to the public it risked the worst horrors. "
panicked reaction of many people across the country indicates a nervousness among the population, there are less than two years, there was a foreign invasion. During the broadcast, the phone network was saturated, people are taking the current program trying to learn. In Tbilisi, a large number of viewers interviewed reported having hot believed in the reality of the newspaper, and informing people who do not watch this channel, which in turn have believed in the space of 20 minutes. In the cities indicated in the fake diary as being subject to imminent bombing Poti and Senaki as in Mingrelia, there were chaotic trailing blanks. In Gori, a city that experienced the most sensitivity near the 2008 war, the population remained on alert all night, a group of men attacked a gas station to get gas and then be able to escape. It is reported that the ambulance calls were unusually high that night, and it has even been documented cases of reservists called to war by their officers who watched Imedi. Although
at 20:30, everyone or almost discovered the truth, the Georgian population had a severe wakeup call. The condemnation of the act by diplomats from Tbilisi, starting with the U.S. Ambassador John Bass who qualifies as "irresponsible" and concerned the reaction of media worldwide, reinforcing the puzzled reception and outraged by the issuance of a visible part of the population Georgia, at least in Tbilisi. As a guide, several groups have formed on Facebook to condemn the show, reaching 5,000 members before the end of this Saturday, March 13.
An early awakening of the opposition
In the aftermath, the political opposition in Georgia, including the leaders mentioned in the fake newspaper, organized a spontaneous demonstration. Alongside civil society organizations and citizens' groups angry anonymous, major figures of the opposition gathered outside the headquarters Imedi to Dighomi. Some of the guests leaving the show were insulted and sprayed, but outside of that and a few chants, the various opposition parties seemed relatively unorganized and did not decide to undertake a more insistent. They nevertheless decided to hold a public meeting for tomorrow, kicking off the first event of the year preceding their agenda and action fixed according to the municipal elections of May-June
After a spring of ongoing protests that paralyzed the capital in 2009 and a blurring of movement at the dawn of summer, the clash of families did not yet transformed into a massive and spontaneous follow-up of the political anger of the opposition. The event that night and the next day did not attract much more than 200 to 300 participants. Despite the shock, and perhaps partly due to an effect of managed fear, fury is far from popular.
The question of why remains open. The spread of the hoax it was also the opposition party to take courses? The stampede was he wanted? For what purpose?
Imedi TV a strange fate
The most down-to-earth remains: why was precisely the Imedi she launched into this adventure and controversial risk the very survival of the media group? A citizens' movement has already announced plans to drag the matter to court. In the fake newspaper, use and falsification of intemperate words of real people and important (Barack Obama, Eric Fournier, the French ambassador, the heads of Baltic states and Poland, to call for all involved save Georgia ) would be sufficient to bring down the group in the trial for defamation.
Now Imedi is headed by a close associate of President Saakashvili, Giorgi Arveladze. But it differs from public channels and those that are clearly and openly as allies of the Rustavi 2. For a time the media's main opposition, the property of sulfur oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili, pitting personal Saakashvili, television had been closed following the events of November 7, 2007. After the death of Patarkatsishvili astonishing in its presidential campaign in which it participated, the question of its ownership, with the purchase of a major part of shares by a certain Joseph Kay, that the opposition accuses of being a government agent, has been a matter opaque. Anyway, Imedi has since become another voice of power.
rumored that a trial was in prospect, to restore share of Imedi to the legal heir of Patarkatsishvili's widow Inna Goudavadzé. In which case an action would have been suicidal in a way like another to close the television for too long cumbersome. What is certain is Imedi is pro-government, but represents no formal or symbolic voice of power. What has meaning for an outrageous act openly, morally condemnable, but with content could not be more in line with government propaganda.
"He never missed more than that, a fake Russian invasion," quips finally Giorgi. For the population of a country under high international tension over the past two decades, and particularly in recent years, Saturday night was a fake but violent reminder that stability is still a distant dream that looks good in Georgia, even when actually it nothing happens.
Photos: Nicolas Landru 
Article published in the 15/03/2010 caucaz.com
By Nicolas LANDRU Tbilisi
Tbilisi, 20h. Many Georgians have been sweating this Saturday, March 13, 2010, if they have not turned their television well in advance. The newspaper's evening television channel Imedi (Hope) has been replaced for ½ hour by fake newspaper announcing a new Russian invasion, the bombing large cities, and finally the assassination of President Mikheil Saakashvili. Appraisal: panic, telephone networks saturated, looting a gas station in Gori's ... domestic and international criticism, and a shock to the political opposition pulled out of hibernation and forced to open sooner than expected its new season Challenges.
The hoax of a pro-government television is a new and strange avatar of the media and political life in this Caucasus country accustomed to twists repeated over two years. Population, still scarred by the war in August 2008, responded to heat. While the authorities have an ambiguous reaction vis-à-vis the case, Western diplomats are blaming the chain, which has apologized hot but firmly reiterated its intention and defended his false log thereafter.
"how events may develop if the company does not consolidate against the plans of Russia
The argument that national cohesion is a central element of the anti-opposition rhetoric developed by the regime since the wave of turmoil party in fall 2007. He allowed Mikheil Saakashvili to end the demonstrations on November 7 by introducing a state of emergency and, on several occasions to embarrass his opponents. The war in August 2008 having realized the danger alleged, had opposition row behind the president during the conflict, then kills himself before giving up his attacks in the spring 2009 season for a heavy challenge. The elections for mayor of Tbilisi to be held in May-June 2010 may well see a new wave of endless events paralyze the streets of Tbilisi. In itself, the false newspaper is a point on the "i" even before the opposition, almost absent during the winter, could not make its comeback.
The spokesman of the government visited the headquarters of Imedi shortly after the publication of fake newspaper to issue a formal critique of this action, predictably unpopular, and several members of the presidential majority have strongly condemned the event. But the personal reaction of President Saakashvili, Sunday, March 14, is more ambiguous. Far from commenting on the shape of the event and after briefly Imedi criticized for not scrolling caption indicating it was a fake, the Georgian president has mainly dwelt on the fact that this scenario was "near to the maximum of reality."
"The enemy of Georgia has begun to show a very bad movie for Georgia in August 2008 but we stopped the film, although we know that the director continues to write the script of the screenplay, which is close what we saw yesterday, "he said when asked about the event. How to support the project even a Log-apocalyptic fiction and prognosis. By going to praise the adequacy of the hoax with reality as regards the opponent Nino Burjanadze, pointing that she went to meet Putin in Moscow and hammering by this act proves that she has "no dignity, "the Georgian president does absolutely not sought to remove the suspicion that the spread of fake newspaper is from above, in the government.
"The situation is too tragic for a hoax"
Giorgi, civil society activist who attended the event and spontaneous nocturnal launched against the television channel, knows the hoax broadcast by Belgian television RTBF 13 December 2006, which heralded the disintegration of the Belgian state. Identical formula, may have even speak of an exact copy: ½ hour of fake newspaper where only finer points of detail can leave understanding the deception (here, a brief mention of dates in June 2010 and the holding of municipal elections); all in the format of a special edition, followed by a discussion. A hot topic and an extreme scenario but are likely the key to a formula in which the viewer uninformed will believe almost certainly. But Giorgi, the similarity ends there. "In Belgium, there was no loss of life. There have been no war a year and a half earlier, and we did not announce to the public it risked the worst horrors. "
panicked reaction of many people across the country indicates a nervousness among the population, there are less than two years, there was a foreign invasion. During the broadcast, the phone network was saturated, people are taking the current program trying to learn. In Tbilisi, a large number of viewers interviewed reported having hot believed in the reality of the newspaper, and informing people who do not watch this channel, which in turn have believed in the space of 20 minutes. In the cities indicated in the fake diary as being subject to imminent bombing Poti and Senaki as in Mingrelia, there were chaotic trailing blanks. In Gori, a city that experienced the most sensitivity near the 2008 war, the population remained on alert all night, a group of men attacked a gas station to get gas and then be able to escape. It is reported that the ambulance calls were unusually high that night, and it has even been documented cases of reservists called to war by their officers who watched Imedi. Although
at 20:30, everyone or almost discovered the truth, the Georgian population had a severe wakeup call. The condemnation of the act by diplomats from Tbilisi, starting with the U.S. Ambassador John Bass who qualifies as "irresponsible" and concerned the reaction of media worldwide, reinforcing the puzzled reception and outraged by the issuance of a visible part of the population Georgia, at least in Tbilisi. As a guide, several groups have formed on Facebook to condemn the show, reaching 5,000 members before the end of this Saturday, March 13.
An early awakening of the opposition
In the aftermath, the political opposition in Georgia, including the leaders mentioned in the fake newspaper, organized a spontaneous demonstration. Alongside civil society organizations and citizens' groups angry anonymous, major figures of the opposition gathered outside the headquarters Imedi to Dighomi. Some of the guests leaving the show were insulted and sprayed, but outside of that and a few chants, the various opposition parties seemed relatively unorganized and did not decide to undertake a more insistent. They nevertheless decided to hold a public meeting for tomorrow, kicking off the first event of the year preceding their agenda and action fixed according to the municipal elections of May-June
After a spring of ongoing protests that paralyzed the capital in 2009 and a blurring of movement at the dawn of summer, the clash of families did not yet transformed into a massive and spontaneous follow-up of the political anger of the opposition. The event that night and the next day did not attract much more than 200 to 300 participants. Despite the shock, and perhaps partly due to an effect of managed fear, fury is far from popular.
The question of why remains open. The spread of the hoax it was also the opposition party to take courses? The stampede was he wanted? For what purpose?
Imedi TV a strange fate
The most down-to-earth remains: why was precisely the Imedi she launched into this adventure and controversial risk the very survival of the media group? A citizens' movement has already announced plans to drag the matter to court. In the fake newspaper, use and falsification of intemperate words of real people and important (Barack Obama, Eric Fournier, the French ambassador, the heads of Baltic states and Poland, to call for all involved save Georgia ) would be sufficient to bring down the group in the trial for defamation.
Now Imedi is headed by a close associate of President Saakashvili, Giorgi Arveladze. But it differs from public channels and those that are clearly and openly as allies of the Rustavi 2. For a time the media's main opposition, the property of sulfur oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili, pitting personal Saakashvili, television had been closed following the events of November 7, 2007. After the death of Patarkatsishvili astonishing in its presidential campaign in which it participated, the question of its ownership, with the purchase of a major part of shares by a certain Joseph Kay, that the opposition accuses of being a government agent, has been a matter opaque. Anyway, Imedi has since become another voice of power.
rumored that a trial was in prospect, to restore share of Imedi to the legal heir of Patarkatsishvili's widow Inna Goudavadzé. In which case an action would have been suicidal in a way like another to close the television for too long cumbersome. What is certain is Imedi is pro-government, but represents no formal or symbolic voice of power. What has meaning for an outrageous act openly, morally condemnable, but with content could not be more in line with government propaganda.
"He never missed more than that, a fake Russian invasion," quips finally Giorgi. For the population of a country under high international tension over the past two decades, and particularly in recent years, Saturday night was a fake but violent reminder that stability is still a distant dream that looks good in Georgia, even when actually it nothing happens.
Photos: Nicolas Landru
Monday, March 8, 2010
What Does A Green Bracelet Signify
Kutaisi old new and new old
Kutaisi recently came in the international media's attention: while blowing up a Soviet World War II memorial, an old woman and a little girl were killed. Because the date of explosion was advanced and the operation poorly prepaired.
Followingly, Russia protested against the pro-western Georgian governement, and announced that it would build a copy of that monument in Russia - in a smaller size.
This revealing demonstration of memory policies through city-planning is also representative of the nowadays strange fate of Kutaisi, caught between a strong Georgian national past, a heavy industrial and Soviet one, and the will of a regime to take a completely new orientation.
One can read these tensions around the city's number one historical monument: the ruins of Bagrati Cathedral. As it was destroyed by the Turks in the 17th century, it became an icon of Georgia. But the current president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had a will to rebuild it fully and to add to it a glass dome, thus monumentalizing his aspiration to reshape Georgia's glory in a modern, USA-oriented syncretism.
Following protests of the UNESCO and the Orthodox Church, Saakashvili abandonned this idea. But anyway, repairs are currently going on at the cathedral, where workers replace old stones by new ones. Is it just the new making of the ruin, or will the plan to complete the building be finally realized? Wheather with or without a glass dome?
The second Georgian city, officially 230 000 inhabitants, probably less due to constant emigration, is at the same time poor and rich.
Rich of history, beauty, architectural heritage, hospitality, traditions... Rich also of ruined concrete blocks and devastated former industries in its new parts, economically depressed, brain drained, with a very high rate of unemployement.
Actually, the contrast is striking between apocalyptic New Kutaisi and village-like old Kutaisi, a picturesque and brillantly located quarter on the River Rioni, with its multireligious old buildings and its cobbled green streets.
Even there, the contrasts are big: in a few square streets of russian-type imperial architecture, president Mikheil Saakashvili decided to establish a gentrified touristic area. The historical substance was entirely renovated in a homogenic style, and was even quite largely changed, as it got typical markers of the President's taste, present in all the places he let renovate: Street clocks, 'Tbilisi' balconies, facade-oriented rehabilitation, aiming rather at modernization than at historical exactness.
All those combined elements make the area on the one hand look European, and on the other having elements of a film studio's decor.
Right besides, other parts of Old Kutaisi remain untouched - though some parks where rehabilitated, as well as the cable-car leading to an amusement park, whith old buildings falling in disrepair and at the same time beaming with an atmospheric character. The question is still open: will old Kutaisi be entirely remade in a Sighnaghi style (Kakhetian city entirely rebuilt in a modern folklorist manner), or will it fall fully into ruins? In the middle way, will it be able to keep its historical character?
Hard to forsee in a city where almost everything might surprise the visitor: there are almost as many pharmacies and slot clubs as bulidings. Rather strange, in this town should "WHERE Gutman normal fall ill in masses, nor Have The Economic Means to Play Every Day ...
Pictures: Nicolas Landru . More pictures: Kutaisi, Imereti, Georgia 
Kutaisi recently came in the international media's attention: while blowing up a Soviet World War II memorial, an old woman and a little girl were killed. Because the date of explosion was advanced and the operation poorly prepaired. Followingly, Russia protested against the pro-western Georgian governement, and announced that it would build a copy of that monument in Russia - in a smaller size.
This revealing demonstration of memory policies through city-planning is also representative of the nowadays strange fate of Kutaisi, caught between a strong Georgian national past, a heavy industrial and Soviet one, and the will of a regime to take a completely new orientation.
One can read these tensions around the city's number one historical monument: the ruins of Bagrati Cathedral. As it was destroyed by the Turks in the 17th century, it became an icon of Georgia. But the current president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had a will to rebuild it fully and to add to it a glass dome, thus monumentalizing his aspiration to reshape Georgia's glory in a modern, USA-oriented syncretism. 
Following protests of the UNESCO and the Orthodox Church, Saakashvili abandonned this idea. But anyway, repairs are currently going on at the cathedral, where workers replace old stones by new ones. Is it just the new making of the ruin, or will the plan to complete the building be finally realized? Wheather with or without a glass dome? 
The second Georgian city, officially 230 000 inhabitants, probably less due to constant emigration, is at the same time poor and rich. 
Rich of history, beauty, architectural heritage, hospitality, traditions... Rich also of ruined concrete blocks and devastated former industries in its new parts, economically depressed, brain drained, with a very high rate of unemployement. 
Actually, the contrast is striking between apocalyptic New Kutaisi and village-like old Kutaisi, a picturesque and brillantly located quarter on the River Rioni, with its multireligious old buildings and its cobbled green streets.
Even there, the contrasts are big: in a few square streets of russian-type imperial architecture, president Mikheil Saakashvili decided to establish a gentrified touristic area. The historical substance was entirely renovated in a homogenic style, and was even quite largely changed, as it got typical markers of the President's taste, present in all the places he let renovate: Street clocks, 'Tbilisi' balconies, facade-oriented rehabilitation, aiming rather at modernization than at historical exactness.
All those combined elements make the area on the one hand look European, and on the other having elements of a film studio's decor.
Right besides, other parts of Old Kutaisi remain untouched - though some parks where rehabilitated, as well as the cable-car leading to an amusement park, whith old buildings falling in disrepair and at the same time beaming with an atmospheric character. The question is still open: will old Kutaisi be entirely remade in a Sighnaghi style (Kakhetian city entirely rebuilt in a modern folklorist manner), or will it fall fully into ruins? In the middle way, will it be able to keep its historical character?
Hard to forsee in a city where almost everything might surprise the visitor: there are almost as many pharmacies and slot clubs as bulidings. Rather strange, in this town should "WHERE Gutman normal fall ill in masses, nor Have The Economic Means to Play Every Day ...
Pictures: Nicolas Landru . More pictures: Kutaisi, Imereti, Georgia Monday, March 1, 2010
34 Weeks What Should Fetal Heartrate Be
Rustavi, a city of metal out of the steppe
The city of Rustavi, about ten kilometers to the south of Tbilisi (about 115 000 inhabitants), was out of nothingness in an uninhabited area between 1941 and 1950, as part of Stalin's accelerated industrialization at that time.
massive industrial center, mainly metal, the city was populated by migrant workers throughout Georgia, especially in western Georgia, far more rural, poor and overcrowded.
Although placed on the route Tbilisi-Baku, it was intended to transform the iron ore delivered to Azerbaijan. Major industrial city in Georgia, contrasting sharply with the ancient city of Tbilisi and close with a country overwhelmingly rural, it still contains fascinating aspect.
Its center is a prototype of elegant neo-classical Stalinist architecture, built largely by German prisoners of war. The huge theater including is a masterpiece of neo-classicism Soviet.
The city has grown almost on a road on both sides of the river Kura, staggering in a very visible all models of Soviet architecture from 1941 to 1991.
factories fell into disuse after the collapse of the Soviet Union, notably due to the disintegration of production and distribution of the Union, the 1990s were severe Rustavi. The population increased from 160 000 to 115 000 inhabitants, with over 60% unemployment.
Since then, the city operates in part as a distant suburb of Tbilisi, the marchroutkas to get there, these taxis are numerous and do not cost that 1 Lari. Many Roustaviens work in the capital and commute, which takes only 1 / 2 hours - 45 minutes, little more than Tbilisi-center to some suburbs.
The new Georgian regime has since 2006 embarked on a renovation of the main infrastructure of the city by paving streets, repainting the facades of buildings facing the main street and in public buildings decrepit retyping.
If typical current urban policy, the new painting stopped at the front visible from the road, the initiative has at least restored the necessary and the city seems a little less gray than before.
( * Photo of Ruby )
Some economic activities were transferred to Tbilisi Rustavi, including the huge car market. In recent years, stores have proliferated.
Rustavi also has one of the most popular folk ensembles in Georgia, "Rustavi", where yet that is the racetrack where Tbilissiens learn to drive and pass their license (indoor, so no experience of urban traffic!).
Amazing city both old and futuristic, out of the steppes leading to Azerbaijan, the prefecture of Kvemo Kartli provides a visual spectacle strong contrasts.
And has more of a surprise, as the initiative to build mini-churches (the city did not have much, while the Orthodox church built extensively in Tbilisi), which appeared all more they are surrounded by bonsai towers ...
And apparently he, along its main street, about 1km at least, brand new, the only bike trail from Georgia ...
Photos: Nicolas Landru (except *)
The city of Rustavi, about ten kilometers to the south of Tbilisi (about 115 000 inhabitants), was out of nothingness in an uninhabited area between 1941 and 1950, as part of Stalin's accelerated industrialization at that time.
massive industrial center, mainly metal, the city was populated by migrant workers throughout Georgia, especially in western Georgia, far more rural, poor and overcrowded. 
Although placed on the route Tbilisi-Baku, it was intended to transform the iron ore delivered to Azerbaijan. Major industrial city in Georgia, contrasting sharply with the ancient city of Tbilisi and close with a country overwhelmingly rural, it still contains fascinating aspect. 
Its center is a prototype of elegant neo-classical Stalinist architecture, built largely by German prisoners of war. The huge theater including is a masterpiece of neo-classicism Soviet. 
The city has grown almost on a road on both sides of the river Kura, staggering in a very visible all models of Soviet architecture from 1941 to 1991.
factories fell into disuse after the collapse of the Soviet Union, notably due to the disintegration of production and distribution of the Union, the 1990s were severe Rustavi. The population increased from 160 000 to 115 000 inhabitants, with over 60% unemployment. 
Since then, the city operates in part as a distant suburb of Tbilisi, the marchroutkas to get there, these taxis are numerous and do not cost that 1 Lari. Many Roustaviens work in the capital and commute, which takes only 1 / 2 hours - 45 minutes, little more than Tbilisi-center to some suburbs. 
The new Georgian regime has since 2006 embarked on a renovation of the main infrastructure of the city by paving streets, repainting the facades of buildings facing the main street and in public buildings decrepit retyping. 
If typical current urban policy, the new painting stopped at the front visible from the road, the initiative has at least restored the necessary and the city seems a little less gray than before. 
( * Photo of Ruby ) Some economic activities were transferred to Tbilisi Rustavi, including the huge car market. In recent years, stores have proliferated.
Rustavi also has one of the most popular folk ensembles in Georgia, "Rustavi", where yet that is the racetrack where Tbilissiens learn to drive and pass their license (indoor, so no experience of urban traffic!). 
Amazing city both old and futuristic, out of the steppes leading to Azerbaijan, the prefecture of Kvemo Kartli provides a visual spectacle strong contrasts. 
And has more of a surprise, as the initiative to build mini-churches (the city did not have much, while the Orthodox church built extensively in Tbilisi), which appeared all more they are surrounded by bonsai towers ... 
And apparently he, along its main street, about 1km at least, brand new, the only bike trail from Georgia ... 
Photos: Nicolas Landru (except *)
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