Samtredia

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Field	Value
name	Samtredia
native_name	სამტრედია
image_skyline	Samtredia theatre.JPG
image_caption	Samtredia Theatre
pushpin_map	Georgia#Georgia Imereti
mapsize	280px
map_caption	Location of Samtredia in Georgia
image_flag	Flag of Samtredia Municipality.svg
image_shield	COA of Samtredia.svg
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Georgia (country)
subdivision_type1	Mkhare
subdivision_name1	Imereti
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Samtredia
established_title	Established
established_date	1921
population_as_of	January 1, 2024
population_footnotes
population_total	21063
blank1_name	Climate
blank1_info	Cfa
timezone	Georgian Time
utc_offset	+4
timezone_DST
coordinates
elevation_m	25
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Samtredia (სამტრედია ) is a town in Imereti, Georgia, lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni and Tskhenis-Tsqali, 244 km west of the capital Tbilisi, and 27 km west of Georgia's third largest city Kutaisi. Georgia's most important roads and railways converge there, making Samtredia the country's vital transport hub. The Kopitnari Airport is also located in 10 km from Samtredia. The town's population is 25,318 as of the 2014 all-Georgia census. The climate is humid subtropical, with mild and warm winters and hot summers.

History

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Samtredia evolved from a crucial railway junction in the 1870s and acquired town status in 1921. In the 1895s there was built the first school in town, 14th public school which today is known as 12th public school. Under Soviet rule, the local economy diversified from transportation to food and wood production.

Due to its strategic location, Samtredia played a prominent role in the civil unrest early in the 1990s when anti-Soviet opposition groups blocked the Samtredia junction from July 26 to 31, 1990 in order to force the Soviet Georgian leadership to adopt a liberal election code. The junction was again blocked in March–April 1991, this time by the new government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, in an attempt to exert pressure on the central Soviet authorities. This blockade, however, inflicted heavy damage not only to the economy of Georgia but to the neighbouring Armenia, which was largely dependent on Georgia’s railways.

In 1993, Samtredia became one of the major battlegrounds in the Georgian Civil War in which the forces loyal to the ousted President Gamsakhurdia confronted the post-coup government troops, and briefly controlled the town from October 17 to October 23, 1993, putting all communications to Tbilisi under threat. Although Samtredia has been stable ever since, the post-Soviet crisis resulted in a significant economic decline that have since only been partially reversed. Samtredia had several large enterprises until the early 90s; due to the economic decline, many enterprises were destroyed.

Geography

Samtredia is located in the Colchis Lowland by the Tskhenistsqali and Rioni rivers. The town is located 27 km from the city of Kutaisi, near the border of the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti mkhare, and 244 km from Tbilisi.

Climate

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Notable people

Meri Arabidze (b. 1994) – Georgian chess player
Akaki Chachua (b. 1969) – Georgian wrestler
Kakha Kaladze (b. 1978) – Incumbent mayor of Tbilisi, former defender of Dynamo Kyiv, A.C. Milan and Georgia national football team ex-captain.
Solomon Kvirkvelia (b. 1992) – Georgian football player
Andrea Razmadze (1889 – 1929) – Mathematician, co-founder of Tbilisi State University
Jemal Tabidze (b. 1996) – Georgian footballer

Gallery

File:Samtredia Train Station.jpg|Samtredia Train Station File:19 - Samtredia.jpg|Samtredia in the 1960s File:Samtredia wikiclub 21.jpg|Samtredia WikiClub, 2023

References

"Population by regions". National Statistics Office of Georgia.
(November 2014). "მოსახლეობის საყოველთაო აღწერა 2014". საქართველოს სტატისტიკის ეროვნული სამსახური.
(December 2017)
Jonathan Wheatley (2005), ''Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution: Delayed Transition in the Former Soviet Union'', p. 52. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., {{ISBN. 0-7546-4503-7.
[[Svante Cornell. Cornell, Svante]] (2001), ''Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus'', p. 173. [[Routledge]], {{ISBN. 0-7007-1162-7.
"Moyennes 1981–2010 Géorgie".
"Météo Climat stats for Samtredia". Météo Climat.

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