Eshera ( abh. Yeshyra ) (formerly Eshera ) is a village in Abkhazia , in the Sukhumi region of the partially recognized Republic of Abkhazia , according to the administrative division of Georgia , in the Sukhumi municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia [1] north of Sukhumi on the Black Sea coast between the Shitskuara and Gumista rivers .
| Village | |
| Eshera | |
|---|---|
| abh. Yeshyra cargo. ეშერა | |
| A country | Republic of Abkhazia / Georgia [1] |
| Region [2] | Abkhaz Autonomous Republic |
| Area | Sukhumi District [3] / Sukhumi Municipality [2] |
| History and Geography | |
| Center height | |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 2130 people ( 1989 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +7 840 |
| Car code | Abh |
Population
According to 1959, 1257 people lived in the village of Esher, mainly Armenians (in the Esher village council as a whole - 3883 people, mostly Armenians (in the village of Esher and the mid-west coastal village of Guandra ), as well as Russians (in the eastern coastal village of Kutyshha ) and Abkhazians (in the extreme-western coastal village of Shitskvara ) [4] [5] .
In 1989, 2130 people lived in the village of Escher [6] , also mainly Armenians; in the Esher village council as a whole (including 1750 residents of the village of Guandra (Armenians), 1628 residents of the village of Kutyshha (Russians and Armenians), and 1169 residents of the village of Shitskvara (mainly Abkhazians, as well as Armenians) in 1989) - 6677 people [ 6] [7] .
According to the 2011 census, the population of the rural settlement (rural administration) of Escher amounted to 2141 people, of which 40.9% were Abkhazians (876 people), 40.8% were Armenians (873 people), 10.9% were Russians (233 people), 1.9% - Georgians (41 people), 1.2% - Ukrainians (26 people), 0.6% - Greeks (13 people), 3.7% - other nationalities (79 people) [8] .
| Population | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1886 [9] | 1926 [10] | 2011 [11] |
| 135 | ↗ 3975 | ↘ 2141 |
History
On the territory of Nizhnyaya Escher many monuments are known, among which cromlechs and ancient settlement are especially noteworthy - one of the most striking monuments of the era of Greek colonization of the coast of Abkhazia , located on the southeastern spur of Vereshchaginsky hill.
In the village of Verkhnyaya Escher, unique burial structures were found - dolmens , which were created two thousand years BC in the Bronze Age .
At the end of the 19th century, on the one of the hills in the village of Escher, the famous Russian battle painter V.V. Vereshchagin built a summer house for himself [12] .
In the 1940s, an airfield was located in Escher. Subsequently, the airport was transferred to the village of Babushara , and the Central Olympic Base of the USSR was founded on the site of the airfield, which brought together representatives of 40 sports, participants of the Moscow Olympics-80 . The base had four football fields. Here was also built a sanatorium "Escher" Ministry of Defense of the USSR [13] .
A front line passed through this territory in the early 1990s, during the Georgian-Abkhaz war , and the buildings of the sports base and boarding houses were badly damaged.
In the village of Escher in 1945, the first president of the Republic of Abkhazia, Vladislav Ardzinba , was born.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 This settlement is located in Abkhazia , which is a disputed territory . According to the administrative division of Georgia , the disputed territory is occupied by the Abkhaz Autonomous Republic . In fact, the disputed territory is occupied by the partially recognized state of the Republic of Abkhazia .
- ↑ 1 2 According to the administrative division of Georgia
- ↑ According to the administrative division of the partially recognized Republic of Abkhazia
- ↑ Sukhumi district in 1959. Villages and predominant nationalities
- ↑ Ethnocard of the Abkhaz ASSR 1959
- ↑ 1 2 All-Union Population Census 1989. Abkhaz ASSR
- ↑ Ethnic-language maps of Abkhazia in 1989. Koryakov Yu. B.
- ↑ Census of Abkhazia 2011. Sukhumi district
- ↑ Ethnic Caucasus. Gumistinsky site (1886) .
- ↑ Ethnic Caucasus. Sukhumi district (1926) .
- ↑ Ethnic Caucasus. Sukhumi district (2011) .
- ↑ Welcome to Abkhazia! (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 22, 2009. Archived January 27, 2009.
- ↑ Rest in Escher (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment April 22, 2009. Archived February 22, 2012.