Gudauri [4] ( Georgian გუდაური ) is a village, a small tourism center and ski resort [5] located on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in the Kazbegi Municipality of Georgia , on the Georgian Military Road , not far from the Cross Pass at an altitude of 2150 m above the level Sea (the highest mountain settlement on the road). In the Russian Empire, it was considered the coldest settlement in the Caucasus from those where observations are being made.
| Village | |
| Gudauri | |
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| cargo. გუდაური | |
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| A country |  Georgia |
| Edge | Mtskheta-Mtianeti |
| Municipality | Kazbegsky |
| History and Geography | |
| Center height | |
| Timezone | UTC + 4 |
| Population | |
| Population | 54 [1] people ( 2014 ) |
| Nationalities | Georgians (100%) [2] |
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The distance from Gudauri to Tbilisi is about 120 km and takes about 2 hours by car.
History
Mention of Gudauri and the Cross Pass are found in sources from the 18th-19th centuries ( Nikolai Nefedyev , M. Yu. Lermontov , Alexander Dumas and others), in connection with the passage of the most important transport highway here. With the beginning of the reconstruction of the Georgian Military Highway, the Russian administration in Gudauri built a railway station Gudaur.
There are photographs of the tunnel in the section of Gudauri- Kobi , the postal station Gudauri I, a drawing by M. Lermontov Yu. “Ruins on the banks of the Aragva” depicting a mystical castle - a fortress , which in appearance and description resembles a place located on the opposite side of the gorge in the upper river White Aragvi . The tortuous Mletsky serpentine in his notes describes Alexander Dumas.
According to literary scholars, Gudauri is one of the possible sources of origin of the name of Prince Gudal invented by Lermontov in "Demon" [6] .
The development of the Gudauri ski resort began in 1975-1985. and continues to the present. The ski season begins in December and lasts until April; the average snow cover in winter reaches 1.5 meters. The tracks are equipped with lifts, the lower station is at an altitude of 1990 meters, the upper station is at an altitude of 3307 meters (the highest points are Mount Sadzele and Mount Kudebi ).
Sports and Entertainment
- School of alpine skiing and snowboarding.
- Speed riding - school and training places.
- Snowkiting.
- Paragliding with an instructor, flight training. [7]
- Freeride School.
- Skitting
- Heliski.
State of emergency on the cableway March 16, 2018
On March 16, 2018, on one of the resort’s cableways, it stopped (due to a voltage drop), and then, due to a mistake by the lift operator, the cableway started (at about twice the speed) to move in the opposite direction, seats with people began to descend from the mountain at high speed. One seat broke on the elevator support on a bend, and other chairs began to crash into this barrier. Most skiers managed to jump off the seats before they even reached the support, while others were thrown out of the seats during a U-turn. The road was stopped after about two minutes after the start of the breakdown. As a result, 11 people were seriously injured [8] [9] .
Notes
- ↑ მოსახლეობის საყოველთაო აღწერა 2014 . საქართველოს სტატისტიკის ეროვნული სამსახური (ნოემბერი 2014). Date of treatment 27 ივლისი 2016.
- ↑ Ethnic composition of Georgia 2014
- ↑ Georgia Post - 1805.
- ↑ Map sheet K-38-53 Lane Cross . Scale: 1: 100,000. State of the terrain for 1987. 1989 Edition
- ↑ Kobakhidze E. D. Economic development of the mountain territories of the USSR // Mountain territories: rational nature management, economic development and resettlement. - M .: VINITI AN USSR, 1988. - S. 103-104. - (Results of science and technology. Series: Geography of the USSR. T. 18).
- ↑ Shaduri V.S. Hood-Mountain // Lermontov Encyclopedia / USSR Academy of Sciences. Inst. Rus. lit. (Pushkinsk. House); scientific ed. Council of the Soviet Encyclopedia Publishing House; ch. ed. V. A. Manuylov ; editorial: I. L. Andronikov ... [and others. ]. - M .: Sov. Encycl., 1981. - S. 123.
- ↑ English . skyatlantida.com. Date of treatment January 21, 2016.
- ↑ “Real meat grinder”: Russians suffered in Gudauri
- ↑ The cause of the accident at the cable car in Gudauri (Rus.) Was named . Date of treatment March 24, 2018.
Literature
- Gudaur // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1893. - T. IXa. - S. 858.