Ozurgeti is a town and the regional administrative centre of Western Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

n province of Guria

Guria

Guria is a region in Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. The region has a population of 143,357 and Ozurgeti is a regional capital.-Geography:...

, former Macharadze or Makharadze (named in honor of Filipp Makaradze). Population of Ozurgeti: 21,009. The major part of a town is located between Natanebi and Bjuji river

River

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Landmarks

The Soviet Neoclassical-style Ozurgeti Dramatic Theatre, the Ozurgeti History Museum, a park containing the city's newly-reconstructed church, and one of the few remaining busts of Stalin in Georgia surround a square in the city's southwest. There is also a plaza overlooked by a statue of a mermaid in the market district.

Honors

A minor planet

Minor planet

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 2139 Makharadze

2139 Makharadze

2139 Makharadze is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 30, 1970 by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 discovered in 1970 by Soviet

Soviet Union

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 astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova

Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova

Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova was a Russian astronomer.From 1966 to 1988 she was a staff member of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Leningrad. She co-discovered the periodic comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, along with Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh. She has also discovered various asteroids...

 is named after Makharadze city (twin city of Genichesk) in honor of the friendship of Georgian and Ukrainian peoples.