Shida Kartli, Georgia · Asia
Khashuri sits on the route: 10 minutes from Surami, 45km from Katskhi Pillar.
Khashuri is in Shida Kartli, Georgia, with about 24,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Surami, about 5 km away.
Khashuri (Georgian: ხაშური [χaʃuɾi]) is a city in the central part of Georgia and is the 9th largest settlement in Georgia. It is the administrative centre of Khashuri Municipality. It is located on the Shida Kartli plain, on the Suramula riverside, 700 metres (2,300 feet) above sea level.
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in a 1693 document. Modern Khashuri was founded in 1872 as a modest railway stop called "Mikhaylovo" after Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Viceroy of the Caucasus. In 1917, it was renamed Khashuri. The city was granted city status in 1921. It was known as Stalinisi, after Joseph Stalin, from 1928 to 1934. In the 19th century after the leading Tbilisi-Poti main line, Khashuri gradually became a major transportation node. The railways and highways were heading towards Borjomi and Akhaltsikhe. The population of the city is 28.435 (2023). There is rail transport, glass container, food industry enterprises, educational and cultural institutions (public theatre, a museum of local lore). The 18th-century tower, St. John and St. Marine's churches are preserved in the city. There are the Surami and Khashuri residence in Khasuri.
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Within an hour or so of Khashuri: Chiatura Cable Cars (42 km), Katskhi Pillar (45 km), Uplistsikhe Cave City (51 km).
The nearest famous roads are Georgian Military Highway, Goderdzi Pass and Kazbegi (Stepantsminda).
Khashuri is in Shida Kartli, Georgia, about 5 km from Surami.
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A Soviet manganese-mining town where aerial cableways strung above the Qvirila gorge in 1954 carried workers up the cliffs. The rusting originals were retired in 2021 and replaced by modern gondolas on the same lines.
42 km · about 50 min drive
natural wonder
A 40 m limestone monolith crowned by a tiny medieval monastery, rising surreally from the Imereti hills near Chiatura: one of Georgia's strangest roadside wonders.
45 km · about 50 min drive
ancient ruins
A 3,000-year-old rock-hewn town that once held 20,000 inhabitants, one of the oldest urban settlements in the Caucasus carved from volcanic rock.
51 km · about 60 min drive
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