Gori University

Gori University is a center for education and science in Shida Kartli in the Gori district of Georgia, it was established as a result of merging of two high education institutions: LEoPL-Gori State University and LEoPL-Tskhinvali State University (Government Resolution #176, August 22, 2007). A caucasus teaching seminary opened in Gori on 12-th September 1876, which gave many well-known teachers to Georgia, including Vazha-Pshavela, Mikheil Tsinamdzgvrishvili, Ia Kargareteli, etc. In August 1935, the university was opened as a two-year teaching institute, which in 1939 was reestablished as the Gori State Pedagogical Institute with four-year studies. The Institute was named after the Georgian poet Nikoloz Baratashvili. In 1985, as a...