Shaumiani ( ka, შაუმიანი, hy, Շահումյան, translit=Shahumyan) is village in the

Marneuli Municipality Marneuli ( ka, მარნეულის მუნიციპალიტეტი, az, Marneuli Bələdiyyəsi) is a municipality in Georgia, in the region of Kvemo Kartli. Its administrative center and main town is Marneuli. Location ...

Kvemo Kartli Kvemo Kartli ( ka, ქვემო ქართლი, az, Aşağı Kartli) or "Lower Kartli", is a historic province and current administrative region ( mkhare) in southeastern Georgia. The city of Rustavi is the regional capital. Location Kv ...

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. Until 1925 it was named Shulaveri or Shulaver ( hy, Շուլավեր, translit=Shulaver), later being renamed after

Stepan Shahumyan Stepan Georgevich Shaumian (; , ''Step’an Ge'vorgi Shahumyan''; 1 October 1878 – 20 September 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician active throughout the Caucasus. Arzumanyan, M. Շահումյան, Ստեփան Գևորգի. ...

. As of 2014, when it was downgraded from a small town ('' daba'') to a village, its population was 3,107 persons. It was the administrative center of the Borchaly uezd of the

Tiflis Governorate The Tiflis Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative center in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi). In 1897, it constituted 44,607 sq. kilometres in area and had a population ...

until 1929, and of the Borchaly Rayon until 1947 when it was transferred to Marneuli and the district was renamed.

Notable inhabitants

* Maro Markarian, Armenian poet * Benjamin Markarian, Armenian astronomer * Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Armenian conductor

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{{Georgia-geo-stub Populated places in Marneuli Municipality Tiflis Governorate

Notable inhabitants

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