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Rustavi (Georgian: რუსთავი) is a city in the southeast of Georgia, in the province of Kvemo Kartli, situated 16 miles (25 km) southeast of the capital Tbilisi. It stands on the Kura river at 41°32′N, 45°00′E. It has a population of 116,384 (2002 census). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Location of Tbilisi in Georgia Coordinates: , Country Georgia Established IV-III Millennium BC Government - Mayor Giorgi (Gigi) Ugulava Area - City 726 km² (280. ...
Mtkvari (Kura) River near Old Town, Tbilisi Kura (Georgian მტკვáƒáƒ ი - Mtkvari, Azerbaijani Kür) is a river in the Caucasus Mountains. ...
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The city was founded in 1948 to house the workforce of a nearby metallurgical plant, constructed in 1941-1950 to process iron ore from nearby Azerbaijan. Stalin brought workers from various regions in Georgia, specifically from the rural poorer provinces of Western Georgia. It took its name from a nearby ancient town which was destroyed by the Mongol leader Tamerlane around 1400. Rustavi became a key industrial centre for the Transcaucasus region. The main industries are iron and steel milling and the manufacture of metal products and chemicals. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
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Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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German POW's who were captured in World War II were enlisted to design and build Old Rustavi. Rustavi is actually divided into two parts--Dzveli Rustavi (Old Rustavi) and Akhali Rustavi (New Rustavi). Old Rustavi adheres to Stalinist architectural style while New Rustavi is dominated by a multitude of seemingly endless stretch of depressing Soviet era block apartments. Geneva Convention definition A prisoner of war (POW) is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. ...
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 proved disastrous for Rustavi, as it also caused the collapse of the integrated Soviet economy on which the city depended. Today, most of its industrial plants have been shut down and 65% of the city's population is unemployed, with all of the attendant social problems of high crime and acute poverty that such a situation brings. The population shrank from 160,000 in the mid-1990s to 116,000 in 2002 as residents moved elsewhere in search of work. The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ...
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History
Rustavi is one of the ancient towns of Georgia, the name of which is connected with the fate of our people beginning from the incursion of Mongols.The town Rustavi took the essential part in the history of Georgia. It always protected the capital Tbilisi from the South-East. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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The foundaton of Rustavi is dated from the time immemorial. Leonti Mroveli connects this process with the name of the glorious ancestor of Georgian people. As Leonti writes in his works The description of the Kingdom of Georgia Rustavi was called as Bostan-Kalaki. It was situated on the river Mkvari and it was founded by the wife of Kartlos. She built a castle to the East of the mountain lagluji.
The historian Leonti Mroveli, who described the lives of the first Georgian kings, mentions the town Rustavi among those castles, which protested the troops of Alexander Macedonian.
Though it is proved in history that Alexander Macedonian never invaded Georgian but Rustavi itself is mentioned among such ancient towns as Uplistsikhe, Urbnisi, Mtskheta and Sarkineti. This fact proves that Rustavi as a city had been founded in the V-IV centuries B.C, it was the period of unification of Georgia.
This is what Leonti Mroveli gives us in his work-“The lives of Kings”. The king Trdat, the 28th King of Kartli (of the end of IV centuries A.D) had built a church and a canal. The academician Niko Berdzenishvili wrote that from that time on Rustavi was considered as a big political and administrative center.
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During the reign of Vakhtang Gorgasali (V century) Rustavi took an important part in the political life of Georgia. Since then a Bishopricpulpit had been founded in Rustavi and of the bishops out of twelve was sanctified according to the wish of Vakhtang Gorgasali. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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The thing is that the churches of Kartli acted against the King Vakhtang Gorgasali as they were under the influence of Persia. That’s why the King of Kartli dismissed the main Bishop Michael and charged his man. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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The Bishopric of Rustavi existed till XIII century, before it was ruined by Mongols. Later the Bishopric was transferred to Martkopi, but the Bishop of Martkopi wore the ecclestiastic title of Rustaveli (Rustavi).
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At the beginning of the VI century, in 503, the united troops of Georgian and Armenian warriors resisted against the Persian King. In the bettle the King Vakhtang Gorgasali was mortally wounded. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Ancient Exhibits
The troops of Georgian and Armenian warriors remained without the commander and they had been defeated by the Persians. They destroyed the Kingdom of Kartli and the government was given to Mirzahan-the vizi(e)r of Shah. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Besides, the manuscripts, the excavations of the castle Rustavi prove that Rustavi was a big political and administrstive center. During the archaelogical excavations the remnants of the ancients buildings are found, there are the remnants of the buildings of the IV and V centuries.
It is well-known that in the IV century Rustavi and Ujarma had been promoted in Kakheti.
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