Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue ( ka, ილია ჭავჭავაძის გამზირი) is one of the main avenues of

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

and is named after the writer Ilia Chavchavadze. The avenue is located on the right bank of the Kura River in the

Vake district Vake is an administrative district ( raioni) in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.District heads of Tbilisi
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of Tbilisi and is a continuation of Melikishvili and

Rustaveli Avenue Rustaveli Avenue ( ka, რუსთაველის გამზირი, ''Rust'avelis Gamziri''), formerly known as ''Golovin Street'', is the central avenue in Tbilisi named after the medieval Georgian poet, Shota Rustaveli. The avenue s ...

. It was originally, from 1935 to 1957 named Niko Marr Street after the orientalist

Nicholas Marr Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr (, ''Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr''; , ''Nikoloz Iak'obis dze Mari''; — 20 December 1934) was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking ...

Gallery

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References

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