Rustavi

City: Rustavi

Country: Georgia

Address: City Hall the Rustavi Municipality Kostava Ave, 20, Rustavi, 3700, Georgia

Cooperation agreement: 07.05.2016

The city of Rustavi is a city in southeastern Georgia, the administrative center of the Kvemo Kartli region. Located 25 kilometers southeast of Tbilisi. Area - 60 km². The population is 128,680 people.

Rustavi is one of the oldest cities in Georgia, which has played a significant role in its history. In addition to the manuscripts, excavations of Rustavi Castle proved that Rustavi was a major political and administrative center. Archaeological excavations have found the remains of ancient buildings, there are remains of buildings of the 4th and 5th centuries. Rustavi was completely destroyed by Tamerlane's troops in the late 14th century.

Rustavi is the youngest Georgian city, which was formed almost in an empty place as a working settlement and received the full status of the city only in the middle of the last century when the Soviet government began to carry out forced industrialization in these areas. During the industrialization of Rustavi became an important industrial center. Metallurgical enterprises, chemical plants, as well as an important railway station on the Tbilisi-Baku branch appeared. About 90 large and medium-sized industrial enterprises were built in Rustavi. The main industrial enterprise was the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant, built in 1941-1950 to process iron from neighboring Azerbaijan. Workers were gathered from all over the republic, including the poorest agricultural areas of western Georgia. Not only metallurgy developed but also the production of cement, chemicals and synthetic fibers.