Mtskheta-Mtianeti

Mtskheta is the administrative centre of the region.

Mtskheta-Mtianeti consists of 5 administrative districts: Akhalgori, Dusheti, Tianeti, Mtskheta, Kazbegi.

There are 591 settlements in the region of which:

2 cities - Mtskheta and Dusheti;
7 towns - Zahesi, Akhalgori, Zhinvali, Pasanauri, Tianeti, Sioni, Kazbegi;
582 villages.

Mtskheta-Mtianeti is mainly an agricultural region with fruit and vegetable growing developed in Mtskheta and animal farming in the Tianeti, Dusheti and Kazbegi mountainous areas. The military road of Georgia, which stretches from Tbilisi to the Russian border, runs across this region. It seems that very little cargo volumes are transported along this road taking into consideration that the road via Abkhazia is still closed and that the military road is one of the two roads connecting Georgia with Russia.

Industrial enterprises are mainly concentrated in Mtskheta and Dusheti. The main skiing resort of the country, Gudauri, is also located in the region.

Households are mainly engaged in growing maize (5,000 ha; 12,000 tons) and fruit (4,000 ha; 1,000 tons). Three thousand ha of land is used as pasture-fields.

Main sites of tourist interest:

• City-museum Mtskheta
• Ananuri monastery
• Zedazeni monastery
• Shiomgvime monastery
• Shatili village
• Gergeti Sameba