Sno seen from the West / Sno von Westen gesehen |
Sno castle/ Burg Sno |
Tergi river / Fluss Tergi |
1thingtodo hat weitere Informationen über das Sno-Tal.
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Sno seen from the West / Sno von Westen gesehen |
Sno castle/ Burg Sno |
Tergi river / Fluss Tergi |
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"The city was founded in 1948 to house the workforce of a nearby metallurgical plant, constructed in 1941-1950 to process iron ore from nearby Azerbaijan. Stalin brought workers from various regions in Georgia, specifically from the rural poorer provinces of Western Georgia. It took its name from a nearby ancient town... Rustavi became a key industrial centre for the Transcaucasus region. The main industries are iron and steel milling and the manufacture of metal products and chemicals.
German POWs who were captured in World War II were enlisted to design and build Old Rustavi. Rustavi is actually divided into two parts--Dzveli Rustavi (Old Rustavi) and Akhali Rustavi (New Rustavi). Old Rustavi adheres to Stalinist architectural style..."(The old part of Rustavi. Houses are supposed to still offer superior quality. In German, we call this type of architecture "Zuckerbäckerstil" = "Sugarbaker-stile", in English it is "Stalin Empire". Other examples can be found in East-Berlin on Karl-Marx-Allee or Warsaw, Palace of Culture. If you want to know more about this style, you might want to read this article on Wikipedia about Soviet architecture.)
"... while New Rustavi is dominated by a multitude of seemingly endless stretch of depressing Soviet era block apartments."
(Well, have a look at this video which I took in summer 2003. Please excuse the quality, it is largely due to the fact that I was filming and driving at the same time.)"The fall of the Soviet Union in 1999 proved disastrous for Rustavi, as it also caused the collapse of the integrated Soviet economy on which the city depended. Today, most of its industrial plants have been shut down..."(See the cows grazing? This picture is from 1998 or 1999)
"...and 65% of the city's population is unemployed, with all of the attendant social problems of high crime and acute poverty that such a situation brings. The population shrank from 160,000 in the mid-1990s as residents moved elsewhere in search of work."
This picture says it all. It is one of my favorite b/w-pictures:
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I remember this time of the year (end of Jan., beginning of Feb.) in 1997, when we were living in Telavi. The wind was lousy and cold, in march we had high snow (1m).
So what did we heat with? We had a "petchi", an oven made of tin, the same as used throughout the year for cooking. It has one hole on the top. The advantage for cooking is, that you can adjust the heat rather easily, the big disadvantage for heating, that the thin metal didn´t store the heat (for the picture, see this page). Into this oven we lay a large iron hook with many holes, which was connected with the gas-line by a thick black rubber hose.
Then, in February, the Russians cut the gas-pipeline off saying bills hadn´t be paid by Georgia. So I had to buy wood in the center. Wood, that we had to carry up onto the 3rd floor ourselfes (a whole load of a horse-cart!) only to find out it was still damn wet. So when we left the appartement in March, we had a hard time cleaning everything from black grease that had stuck to closets, ceilings, furniture and so on...
These people (grandparents and grandchildren) obviously didn´t have money for fire-wood. I met them near the street (in the back) that links the old part of Rustavi with the new one.
In the next posts I will show you which effects this wild wood-cutting had and still has.
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Wasserbüffel habe ich nur in Kachetine gesehen; ob es in anderen Landesteilen welche gibt bekannt. Vielerorts fehlen wohl die Voraussetzungen für die Haltung dieser Tiere. Wie man auf dem Bild oben sieht, sind sie aber offensichtlich gut an die winterlichen Temperaturen im Flachland angepasst. (Das Bild wurde am Fuße des Kaukasus "hinter Achmeta" aufgenommen.)
Wasserbüffel bieten im Vergleich zu Kühen zwei Vorteile für den Menschen: Die Milche ist fettreicher, weist aber einen deutlich niedrigeren Cholesteringehalt auf. (Daraus wird der beste "Mazoni" - Georg. für Joghurt - gemacht. Ich esse in Telavi gern eine große Tasse möglichst kalten Wasserbüffel-Mazoni mit einem flach gestrichenen Teelöffel Zucker zum Frühstück. In Tbilisi ist es dagegen eher schwierig Wasserbüffel-Mazoni zu bekommen.)
Die Tiere sind im Allgemeinen sehr friedlich. In Georgien gibt es ausschließlich domestizierte Wasserbüffel, doch wie man auf dem Bild sieht, lässt man sie auch allein umher ziehen, denn sie finden den Weg nach Hause allein. Darum geben die Bauern gerne Rinderherden eine Wasserbüffelkuh mit, die die Herde allein nach Hause führen kann.
Ich mag diese urtümlich aussehenden Geschöpfe sehr.
Es gibt eine Stelle zwischen Telavi und Gremi, etwa halbe Strecke, wo man oft Wasserbüffel sieht. Hier sah ich auch den Hirten mit seiner Herde:
Im Sommer 2003 hatte ich eine Videokamera dabei. Hier ein kurzer Clip von wiederkäuenden Wasserbüffeln, die an der Straße zwischen Telavi und Gremi im Schatten lagen:
Übrigens: Wasserbüffel wühlen im Schlamm um sich vor (Blut saugenden) Insekten zu schützen.
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