Baghdati ( cargo. ბაღდათი ) is a city in the Imereti region in the western part of Georgia. The administrative center of the Baghdat municipality. In the years 1940-1990, it was called Mayakovsky . The status of the city was assigned in 1981.
| City | |
| Bagdati | |
|---|---|
| cargo. ბაღდათი | |
| A country |  Georgia |
| History and Geography | |
| City with | 1981 |
| Center height | |
| Timezone | UTC + 4 , in summer UTC + 5 |
| Population | |
| Population | 3,707 [1] people ( 2014 ) |
| Katoykonim | Baghdad, Baghdat [2] |
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Geography
The city is located on the Hanistskali River (the left tributary of the Rioni ), on the edge of the Ajamet Forest .
It is located at a distance of 19 km from the Rioni railway station, 25 km from the city of Kutaisi .
Population
The population of 3.7 thousand people. (year 2014).
| year | population [3] |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 4586 |
| 1970 | 4609 |
| 1979 | 4831 |
| 1989 | 5465 |
| 2002 | 4714 |
| 2009 | 4800 |
| 2014 | 3707 |
Culture
The city has a Mayakovsky museum and a theater. The Mayakovsky Museum was opened in 1941. It was founded in the house where V.V. Mayakovsky was born and lived for a short time. The museum of V.V. Mayakovsky is mainly photographs and his quotes. After that, a theater was built, which was named in honor of V.V. Mayakovsky. In this theater scenes from the works of V.V. Mayakovsky were shown.
Famous Natives
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) - Russian Soviet poet
- Georgy Mdivani (1905-1981) - Georgian and Soviet playwright and screenwriter
- Revaz Lagidze (1921-1981) - Soviet Georgian composer
Literature
- Mayakovsky (until 1940 - Baghdadi) // Magnitogorsk - Medusa. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1954. - P. 582. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 51 vols.] / Ch. Ed. B. A. Vvedensky ; 1949-1958, vol. 26).
Notes
- ↑ National Statistics Office of Georgia, Population Census 2014
- ↑ Gorodetskaya I. L., Levashov E. A. Bagdati // Russian names of inhabitants: Dictionary-reference book. - M .: AST , 2003 .-- S. 37 .-- 363 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-17-016914-0 .
- ↑ Census data from 1959, 1970, 1979, 1989, 2002.