The Sukhumi or Sukhum okrug was a special administrative district (okrug) in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, part of the Kutaisi Governorate...

Sukhumi (see also other names) is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the capital and largest city of the Republic of Abkhazia...

(1872–1922), a landowner in Sukhumi Okrug, from the Mingrelian ethnic group. Beria attended a technical school in Sukhumi, and later claimed to have joined...

the Tiflis Governorate was 84,224 according to the 1897 census. The Sukhumi okrug was included in the Kutaisi Governorate in 1897; The population of its...

Merkheuli (Abkhaz: Мархьаул; Georgian: მერხეული [meɾχeuli]; Armenian: Մերխեուլ) is a village in Abkhazia, Georgia. A 2011 census recorded a population...

1918—1919 Sochi conflict, which involved a territorial conflict over Sukhumi okrug (which corresponds to the Abkhazian region) between the Georgian Democratic...

the Tiflis Governorate in 1867. The Kutaisi Governorate bordered the Sukhumi Okrug to the northwest, the Kuban Oblast to the north, the Terek Oblast to...

Abkhazia, the Bolsheviks opposed the Mensheviks, who were centered on Sukhumi. On 16 February 1918 Lakoba and Efrem Eshba, an Abkhaz Bolshevik, overthrew...

north, the Tuapsinsky okrug to the west, the Sukhumi okrug to the east, and the Black Sea to the south. The area of the Sochinsky okrug mostly corresponds...

Tkvarcheli (Georgian: ტყვარჩელი [tʼqʼʷaɾtʃʰeli] ; Abkhaz: Тҟəарчал, Tqwarchal; Ткуарчал (Tkuarchal) Russian: Ткварчели, Tkvarcheli) is a town in Abkhazia...

town in the Gudauta raion of Abkhazia situated some 22 km (14 mi) from Sukhumi by the shores of the Black Sea. The town was previously known under the...

Lykhny (Georgian: ლიხნი, Abkhaz: Лыхны) is a village in the Gudauta District of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. In medieval Georgian...

region) administrative unit of the Russian Empire, similarly to the Sukhumi okrug. The district was originally established under the name Belokan in 1842...

Adzyubzha (Georgian: აძიუბჟა; Abkhaz: Аӡҩыбжьа; Russian: Адзю́бжа) is a rural settlement in the Ochamchira District of Abkhazia, Georgia’s breakaway republic...

Chuburkhindji (Chuburkhinji; Georgian: ჭუბურხინჯი, Abkhaz: Хьацҳа or Ҷубурхьынџь) (known as Tzalamukhi [წალამუხი] until 1957) is a village in the Gali...

Lidzava (Georgian: ლიძავა; Abkhaz: Лӡаа) is a village in the Gagra District of Abkhazia, Georgia. In 1868, the village had 177 Christian residents and...

eponymous district. It is situated on the Black Sea, 37 km northwest of Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia. It is the namesake for the Gudauta Bay. Gudauta...

გალი [ɡali] ; Abkhaz: Гал, Gal) is a town in Abkhazia 77 km southeast of Sukhumi. It is the centre of Gali District and was in the United Nations security...

Ilori (Georgian: ილორი; Abkhaz: Елыр, Elyr; Russian: Илори) is a village in the Ochamchira District of Abkhazia, Georgia, located on the coast of the Black...

disbanded. On May 8, the Soviet of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies of Sukhumi adopted a resolution on joining the Russia Soviet Republic. The Abkhaz...

Mokvi (Abkhaz: Мықә; Georgian: მოქვი) is a village in Abkhazia, Georgia. Located on the Mokvi river. Its elevation above sea level is around 130 m, the...

fighting on the Georgian side and then went on to be the first to enter Sukhumi in 1993. Since then, a detachment of Kuban Cossacks continue to inhabit...

Ghvada (Georgian: ღვადა; Abkhaz: Ҕәада) is a village in the Ochamchira District of Abkhazia, Georgia. Nugzar Ashuba – Abkhaz politician, Speaker of the...

doi:10.1080/09668138808411783 kartuli sabch'ota entsiklopedia (1985), "Sukhumi okrug", kartuli sabch'ota entsiklopedia (Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia) (in...

of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Sukhumi Okrug to the north, the Lechkhumi uezd to the east, the Senaki uezd to the...

located 53 kilometres (33 miles) southeast of the Abkhazian capital of Sukhumi. Ochamchire's climate is humid subtropical, with mild winters and hot summers...

Bedia (Georgian: ბედია Abkhaz: Бедиа) is a village in the Tkvarcheli District of Abkhazia. As a result of the Georgian dispute over the sovereignty of...

Eshera (Georgian: ეშერა; Abkhaz: Ешыра; Russian: Эшера) is a village in the Sukhumi District in Abkhazia. It is a climatic-balneotherapeutic resort on the...

During 1904-1917 it served as the border between the Russian Empire's Sukhumi Okrug and the Black Sea Governorate. Bzipi is a comparatively new Georgian...

Gulrypsh) is an urban settlement in Abkhazia. It is located 12 km from Sukhumi, and is the capital of Gulripshi District. Nikolay Smetskoy built three...