Ochkhamuri ( ka, ოჩხამური ) is a small town ('' daba'') on the

Ochkhamuri river Ochkhamuri ( ka, ოჩხამური ) is a small town ('' daba'') on the Ochkhamuri river in Adjara, Georgia, with the population of 5,355 as of the Georgian census of 2014. Geography Ochkhamuri is located on the banks of the Ochkhamuri r ...

in Adjara,

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, with the population of 5,355 as of the Georgian census of 2014.

Geography

Ochkhamuri is located on the banks of the Ochkhamuri river, at 12 m above

sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardise ...

. It is part of the

Kobuleti Municipality Kobuleti ( ka, ქობულეთის მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a district of Georgia, in the autonomous republic of Adjara. Its main town is Kobuleti. Since 1921, the municipality's territory has been included in the Ko ...

and is situated on the administrative boundary of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara with the rest of Georgia, specifically with the

region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics ( physical geography), human impact characteristics ( human geography), and the interaction of humanity an ...

Guria Guria ( ka, გურია) is a region (''mkhare'') in Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. The region has a population of 113,000 (2016), with Ozurgeti as the regional capital. Geography ...

History

The

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

collectivization Collective farming and communal farming are various types of, "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member- ...

campaign of the 1920s and 1930s made this otherwise non-notable village a part of a larger subtropical agricultural area. A tea

kolkhoz A kolkhoz ( rus, колхо́з, a=ru-kolkhoz.ogg, p=kɐlˈxos) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhoz., a contraction of советское хозяйство, soviet ownership or ...

farm created at Ochkhamuri triggered an influx of migrants which significantly increased the settlement's population. Jaoshvili, Vakhtang (1968), Население Грузии ("The Population of Georgia"), p. 121. Tbilisi: Metsniereba In 1954, the village was given the status of an urban-type settlement (Georgian: ''daba'').Results of all-Georgia census of 2002: Table 15
State Department for Statistics of Georgia. Accessed on April 3, 2011

References

{{Cities and towns in Georgia (country) Cities and towns in Adjara Populated places in Kobuleti Municipality

Geography

History

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