Ozurgeti

Ozurgeti (Georgian: ოზურგეთი) is a town and the regional administrative centre of Western Georgian province of Guria, 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 rivers. 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. A minor planet 2139 Makharadze discovered in 1970 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is named after Makharadze city...