Tkvarcheli

Tkvarcheli is a town in Abkhazia. It is located on the river Ghalidzga and a railroad connects it with Ochamchire. An location inside this agreement is Akarmara, a ghost city with deserted apartments and factories which became uninhabited inside the early Nineteen Nineties due to the War in Abkhazia. Coal mining, which began inside the region in 1935, grew in significance at some stage in the Second World War, particularly after the Donbass was lost for the duration of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Tkvarcheli was given metropolis status on 9 April 1942. During the War in Abkhazia, Tkvarcheli withstood, thru Russian navy resource, an uneasy siege through the Georgian forces. Since 1995, it is the centre of the newly fashioned Tkvarcheli District. On 27 September 2008, President Sergei Bagapsh offered it the honorary identify of Hero City. Coal-mining has been the town's essential industry, even though now the Soviet mines are closed and coal is quarried best through the Abkhaz-Turkish Tamsaş employer the use of the open pit technique.