Georgian president opens newly constructed bridge on Enguri River
Mestia - Zugdidi (Enguri Reservoir)
On the road of Mestia - Tbilisi
Enguri river, Georgia
On my way to mestia from zugdidi
Kavtura river
Short trip to Kavtura river waterfalls
ენგურის კაშხალი (enguri dam) ))))))))
Road trip Georgia: Mestia to Jvari (Svaneti / Samegrelo)
Summary of the 104 km drive from Mestia to Jvari (near Zugdidi), mostly along the upper Enguri river.
Not racing, just double speed play.
Shkhara the source of Inguri river.
Shkhara. Inguri river source.
Georgia: Enguri dam keeps the power flowing
The EBRD's 15-year mission to renovate the world's second biggest arch dam -- now the Enguri HPP again provides more than 40% of Georgia's electricity needs. The project is also supported by the EU and EIB.
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Inguri Bridge
Eyewitness Studio, Georgia. This bridge is connecting Samegrelo and Gali district divided by Georgia-Abkhazia conflict. gogroupmedia.net
Road from Mestia to Enguri Dam 2019 August
Music by: Evigt Mörker
Release/catalogue number: EVIGT001
Release date: Sep 14, 2013
Into a crevasse. Enguri icefall. Svanetia, Georgia.
Journey from Ushguli to Mestia, Georgia
USHGULI, THE MOST REMOTE VILLAGE IN GEORGIA
Ushguli is in the far, mountainous north of Georgia 6 kilometers from the Russian border.
It is nested in the Caucasus Mountains.
There are four villages that make up Ushguli, Svaneti, one of the region’s most remote outposts and Europe’s highest permanent settlement. The road from Mestia to Ushguli is by far the most dangerous in Europe, with steep dropoffs, narrow greasy winding road far above the fast running rivers below. Fraught with avalanches, mudslides and water washouts, this road can be treacherous.
The people of Ushguli are tough and taciturn, speaking an archaic Georgian dialect and practising a version of Orthodox Christianity owing much to earlier beliefs, Svan cultural identity is distinct. Isolated by an annual six-month winter, until the early 2000s Svaneti remained a lawless place; blood feuds and banditry were widespread. Georgians even ridicule Svans as unsophisticated (although, sensibly, they do it quietly).Stymied by its remote location, Ushguli had long endured a terminal decline, as harsh conditions combined with instability to drive depopulation. However, as Georgia has emerged from post-Soviet chaos, security has returned to Georgia, including Svaneti.
In Zhibiani, one of the larger villages, ancient Svan defensive towers overlook the winding lanes and wandering livestock. Substantial stone buildings of two storeys, upper floors fronted by enclosed wooden balconies, lie in varying states of repair.
Marekhi Nijharadze’s, (longstanding local resident) house is in good order though, with Soviet symbols recalled in decorative fretwork. She invites Alex, my Georgian guide and me inside.
“I came here as a midwife,” she laughs. “Life was very different in the 1950s. I was the only medic. I had to extract teeth and even perform small surgeries. There was no money, no transport and the road to Mestia was terrible. It wasn’t what I was expecting but I wanted to help.”
These days Marekhi runs a guesthouse; beds stand wherever there’s space, while an extension to make room for more is clearly underway. In an original bedroom two significant fissures track across the wall – scars from the 1987 avalanche which saw half Zhibiani’s residents pack up and leave.
“Just 50 people remained – everyone was trying to escape,” she says. “Finally, tourism has brought them back.”
Despite its rough and ready nature, for centuries Svaneti proved a safe and remote repository for art and learning, usually under the protection of Orthodox monasteries. On a hill overlooking Zhibiani, against the backdrop of Shkhara’s snowy 5,000m massif, Lammeria monastery remains home of the Bishop of Upper Svaneti.
Past a shepherd dog the size of a pony is the entrance, where a bearded and robed monk appears and rings a peel of three bells. He opens the door to a tiny 10th century chapel and motions us to enter, lighting a candle before we take a seat.
“I was supposed to come for a month,” he says.
Not everyone in Ushguli is so straightforward. Surrealist artist Pridon Nijharadze also lives in Zhibiani, leading a reclusive existence and giving few interviews. He’s rumoured to be an awkward and eccentric character; but Alex knows Pridon’s nephew, who’s willing to make an introduction.
We walk along narrow alleys, past abandoned Russian trucks and silently wandering cows, to a half-stone, half-wooden building. At the top of a flight of steps, a whiskered elderly man eyes our approach – Pridon, as it turns out. “What do you think of the positions held by Stalin and Roosevelt after the Tehran Conference?” he demands by way of introduction. Happy with Alex’s reply, he invites us into his studio, to tell us about his past. “In the 1970s I studied in Tbilisi, but they couldn’t give me anything,” he says. “What I wanted to paint wasn’t allowed.”
“I demonstrated against the Soviets when they banned the Georgian language. They put me in an asylum, took my blood, gave me drugs. I’ve had health problems ever since.”
A group of Aussies descended on Ushguli recently guided by Georgian local Maka Tsertsvadze.
An absolute stunning place.
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enguri georgia. geotraveltours
enguri dam georgia one of the large dam in europe
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Svaneti - En route back from Mestia to Zugdidi.AVI
Shamgona
Shamgona is a village in Samegrelo on the border with Abkhazia. Flooding waters of the river Inguri threaten to wash the village away while bandits and thieves terrorize the inhabitants. The film by Irakli (Guga) Lagvilava and Gocha Khundadze, Samegrelo, Georgia. Produced by the Eyewitness Studio, Tbilisi, Georgia. gogroupmedia.net
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Enguri Dam- Jvari ენგურის კაშხალი ჯვარი
The Enguri Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Enguri River in Georgia. Currently it is the world's second highest concrete arch dam with a height of 271.5 metres (891 ft).[1][2][3] It is located north of the town Jvari.
Jvari (Georgian: ჯვარი) is a town in the northwestern Georgian province of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti. The town is situated at an altitude of 280 metres near the Magana River where it flows into the Enguri River; The town is divided in two with Jvari lying on the Zugdidi-Mestia highway, and Jvarzeni (Upper Jvari) up the hill.
ენგურის ჰიდროელექტროსადგური — უდიდესი ჰესი ამიერკავკასიაში. მდებარეობს მდინარე ენგურზე. შენდებოდა 1961-1978 წლებში. ენგურჰესი ჰიდროელექტროსადგურების კასკადია, რომელშიც შედის თვით ენგურჰესი, რომლის დადგმული სიმძლავრეა 1300 ათ. კვტ (5 აგრეგატი, თითოეული 260 ათ. კვტ სიმძლავრის), ვარდნილჰესი № 1 (სიმძლავრე 220 ათ. კვტ) და სამი 40-ათ. კვტ სიმძლავრის ჰესი. ენგურჰესის თაღოვან კაშხალს მინიჭებული აქვს ეროვნული მნიშვნელობის კულტურის ძეგლის სტატუსი[1]
ჯვარი — ქალაქი საქართველოში, წალენჯიხის მუნიციპალიტეტში. მდებარეობს მდინარე ენგურის ნაპირას, ზუგდიდი-მესტიის საავტომობილო გზაზე, ზღვის დონიდან 280 მ სიმაღლეზე. ქალაქად გამოცხადდა 1981 წელს. ქალაქში არის სამრეწველო საწარმოები, ჯანდაცვის, განათლებისა და კულტურის დაწესებულებები, შემორჩენილია შუა საუკუნეების ციხის ნანგრევები.
Damage to youth camp nr border with Abkhazia, ship in Black Sea
SHOTLIST
Near Zugdidi
1. Various of Russian troop convoy travelling on road towards Zugdidi
Ganmukhuri, 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) west from breakaway province of Abkhazia
2. Wide of Ganmukhuri summer youth camp
3. Close of sign reading (in Georgian, English, and Russian) The Town of Peace and Friendship
4. Various of destroyed camp houses
5. Mid of bunk beds
6. Close of bunk beds and blanket
7. Wide of local resident standing by large crater in ground
8. Close of debris in crater
9. Horse carcass
10. SOUNDBITE (Georgian) Givi Gogia, Local resident:
This is a youth camp, it is not military or strategically important, you can see that they are dropping bombs. Why are they killing our children? I think they do not know what they are doing.
11. Tilt up from crater to camp houses
12. Long shot of Russian vessel at sea
STORYLINE:
Russian forces moved into another town in western Georgia on Monday where they seized police stations, the Georgian Interior Ministry said.
Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said Russian forces moved into the town of Zugdidi outside the breakaway province of Abkhazia and seized police stations there on Monday.
Abkhazian forces took control of the nearby village of Kurga, he said.
Russian and Georgian officials said that Russian forces also have seized a Georgian base in the town of Senaki, further east.
Senaki is located about 30 miles (50 kilometres) east of the Inguri River, which divides Abkhazia from the rest of Georgia, inland from the Black Sea port of Poti.
Earlier, Russia had warned Georgian forces west of Abkhazia they faced Russian military action if they did not lay down their weapons.
Russia's deputy chief of General Staff Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said on Russian television on Monday that Russia demanded Georgia disarm police in Zugdidi, but did not say what would happen if they do not.
Russian troops were seen moving through Abkhazia on Sunday as Russian officials say 9,000 additional Russian troops and 350 armoured vehicles arrived in Abkhazia to support Russian peacekeepers there, according to Russian news reports on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Georgian Interior Ministry also said that a youth summer camp in Ganmukhuri, 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) west of Abkhazia, had been bombed and destroyed on Sunday night.
The camp had been evacuated over the weekend, locals said, and no casualties were reported.
This is a youth camp, it is not military or strategically important, you can see that they are dropping bombs, said local resident Givi Gogia, standing next to a large bomb crater.
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