RISKING DEATH in Rusty Old Soviet Cable Cars
A strange and freaky experience riding in decrepit old cable cars built during the time of the Soviet Union in the town of Chiatura, Georgia.
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RISKING DEATH in Rusty Old Soviet Cable Cars
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Travel vlog 548 | Chiatura, Georgia | Country #79 | The locals take these old cable cars straight up a mountain on the reg. We thought it sounded like an adventure, and we were right! We (dramatically) rode the cars STRAIGHT up and back down the mountain, then finished our Georgia road trip at the awesome Katskhi pillar church.
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An epic day out from Kutaisi in Georgia (Europe), involving me visiting the Katskhi Pillar, a giant rock with a monastery on top 40 metres up. I also hitch hiked into Chiatura, an off the beaten path city not many tourists visit. Here I went for a ride on some old cable cars that were installed in 1954 in the communist era as a mode of transport for the workers.
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Chiatura was once one of the most prosperous industrial cities in Georgia, boasting rich resources of manganese. Due its location in a steep valley surrounded by high mountains, Chiatura installed a system of cable cars to transport workers to and from the mines, as well as manganese from the mines to the factories. With deindustrialisation the manganese industry shrank and Chiatura’s population halved, but many of the cable cars still run, establishing a net between the city and its people. Chiatura, my Pride explores how this extraordinary transport system gives character to the city forty years after its installation.
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Chiatura felt like a Soviet-era post-apocalyptic zombie town surrounded by beautiful valleys, river crossings, and gorges.
Built in the 1950', these rusty ageing metal cable cars are still used daily by the locals to get to their homes on the many hills of Chiatura.
Wished we spent more time exploring this peculiar town.
Scary Travel Experience | Old Rusty Soviet Cable Cars Chiatura, Georgia
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Georgia's Chiatura cable cars are almost ‘Forgotten Ghosts’ of the former Soviet Union. You have to ride them to banish fear, but it’s a truly scary ride experience inside these old rusty Soviet build cable cars (funiculars).
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CHIATURA / GRUZJA miasto kolejek linowych
Podczas naszego objazdu po Gruzji jednym z głównych punktów który sobie założyliśmy była wizyta w CHIATURA (czyt.Cziatura) - Miasto położone jest w głębi kraju, w górskiej dolinie na brzegach Kwirili. Ze względu na strome doliny rzeki w 1954 zbudowany został w mieście system kolejek linowych, który miał ułatwić transport pracowników tutejszej kopalni. System funkcjonuje nieprzerwanie do dzisiaj, pomimo złego stanu technicznego. Takich cudów jeżdżących na linach nad głowami chyba nie spotyka się już nigdzie na świecie. Tym bardziej polecam odwiedzić to miasto i to jak najszybciej, bo nie wiadomo jak długo jeszcze będą kursowały te archaiczne kolejki. Obecnie budowane są nowoczesne, współczesne kolejki, które z biegiem czasu pewnie zastąpią te wyksploatowane do granic możliwości, z lat 60-tych. Na filmiku nasz przejazd najdziwniejszą z kolejek jaką tam znaleźliśmy, widoki są cudowne.
Cable car from 1954 in Chiatura, Georgia
The Friedensbahn is the oldest cable car in Tschiatura (Georgia). It has been operating since 1954 without interruption in its original condition!
Cable car ride - Chiatura, Georgia
The Town of Chiatura (Imereti Region) is located on steep mountain slopes. Cable cars are main way of public transport and were built in early 1950s. Most of them are still operative.
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Obsolete But In Charge - The Only Cableway In Kutaisi
Dangling over steep slopes and gorges or suspended over apartment blocks and churches, cableways are a common view in Georgia. The rope roads were developed in the 1950s as Soviet civil engineers struggled to navigate the sometimes challenging geography of mountainous towns, like the mining hub of Chiatura, or hilly cities, like Georgia’s second biggest city of Kutaisi. In some cases, the transport solution was aerial.
Kutaisi’s cable car was built in 1961 on one of the hills of the Gora district - and it has hardly changed since then.
ШОКИРУЮЩАЯ ГРУЗИЯ, ЗАБРОШЕННЫЙ ГОРОД ЧИАТУРА. Chiatura, Georgia (ABANDONED). Самое больше количество
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A Stalin era network of cables keeps one town on the move
(1 Apr 2017) LEADIN
Cable cars and a network of rope roads from the Stalin era remain the main method of transport in a rural area of Georgia.
The ancient system helps ferry people across Chiatura, including miners working one of the world's richest manganese deposits.
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Public transport - old style.
This is just one of the battered cable cars still crossing the skyline in Georgia's western town of Chiatura.
Cable cars, using 'rope roads', are the main means of the transportation in this mining town surrounded by steep mountains.
Chiatura has one of the richest manganese deposits in the world, which has be mined since 1879.
Because of the treacherous terrain, it was difficult for locals to reach the mines. The solution was a network of cables and cable cars, constructed during the Stalin era.
Currently 17 rope roads operate inside Chiatura. The majority of them have the same infrastructure, installed in 1954.
Cable cars connect various parts of the city and operate 24/7.
Visiting Chiatura today seems like travelling back in time.
Deteriorated stations still have Soviet symbols on them. Equipment used by the cable operators has not changed in 60 years. Even the telephone installed inside the cable car for emergencies appears to be a relic from the Soviet past.
Riding in a rustic cable car may look very dangerous, but it is part of every day life for residents of Chiatura and nearby villages.
Nato Kupatadze has been the driving cable cars for 13 years. She recalls an incident when together with seven passengers she spent several hours inside the cabin dangling hundreds of meters above the ground.
Such incidents are not common, but always possible given the age of the transport system.
Despite the dangers, residents of Chiatura cannot imagine their lives without the cable cars.
If it wasn't for these cable cars it would be impossible to live here, says Lamara Vardosanidze, a music teacher from Chiatura.
While Mamuka Sanidze recalls I was raised using this transport. Service personnel, like the drivers or controllers, change over the years but the rope road stays the same.
Mamuka, along with his children, ride inside the cable cars several time a day.
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Katskhi pillar (კაცხის სვეტი)
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Music by 33a & Volosi - Meskhuri (მესხური)
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Georgian Orthodox Church
Katskhi, 5 km from the town of Chiatura, Chiatura District, Imereti Province, Georgia
42.2875°N 43.2156°E
Seilbahn in Tschiatura, Georgien / Cable car in Chiatura, Georgia
Riding 'Metal Coffins' Through Georgia's Mountains
Residents in Chiatura, Georgia commute on a rusting cable-car network built when Stalin ruled the Soviet Union.
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A few drone clips from my recent trip to Chiatura, Georgia. Hoping to add more soon.
A Stalin era network of cables keeps one town on the move
(2 Apr 2017) LEADIN
Cable cars and a network of rope roads from the Stalin era remain the main method of transport in a rural area of Georgia.
The ancient system helps ferry people across Chiatura, including miners working one of the world's richest manganese deposits.
STORYLINE
Public transport - old style.
This is just one of the battered cable cars still crossing the skyline in Georgia's western town of Chiatura.
Cable cars, using 'rope roads', are the main means of the transportation in this mining town surrounded by steep mountains.
Chiatura has one of the richest manganese deposits in the world, which has be mined since 1879.
Because of the treacherous terrain, it was difficult for locals to reach the mines. The solution was a network of cables and cable cars, constructed during the Stalin era.
Currently 17 rope roads operate inside Chiatura. The majority of them have the same infrastructure, installed in 1954.
Cable cars connect various parts of the city and operate 24/7.
Visiting Chiatura today seems like travelling back in time.
Deteriorated stations still have Soviet symbols on them. Equipment used by the cable operators has not changed in 60 years. Even the telephone installed inside the cable car for emergencies appears to be a relic from the Soviet past.
Riding in a rustic cable car may look very dangerous, but it is part of every day life for residents of Chiatura and nearby villages.
Nato Kupatadze has been the driving cable cars for 13 years. She recalls an incident when together with seven passengers she spent several hours inside the cabin dangling hundreds of meters above the ground.
Such incidents are not common, but always possible given the age of the transport system.
Despite the dangers, residents of Chiatura cannot imagine their lives without the cable cars.
If it wasn't for these cable cars it would be impossible to live here, says Lamara Vardosanidze, a music teacher from Chiatura.
While Mamuka Sanidze recalls I was raised using this transport. Service personnel, like the drivers or controllers, change over the years but the rope road stays the same.
Mamuka, along with his children, ride inside the cable cars several time a day.
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