Shaumiani ( ka, შაუმიანი, hy, Շահումյան, translit=Shahumyan) is village in the

Marneuli Municipality Marneuli ( ka, მარნეულის მუნიციპალიტეტი, az, Marneuli Bələdiyyəsi) is a municipality in Georgia, in the region of Kvemo Kartli. Its administrative center and main town is Marneuli. Location ...

Kvemo Kartli Kvemo Kartli ( ka, ქვემო ქართლი, az, Aşağı Kartli) or "Lower Kartli", is a historic province and current administrative region (mkhare) in southeastern Georgia. The city of Rustavi is the regional capital. Location Kvem ...

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. Until 1925 it was named Shulaveri or Shulaver ( hy, Շուլավեր, translit=Shulaver), later being renamed after Stepan Shahumyan. As of 2014, when it was downgraded from a small town ('' daba'') to a village, its population was 3,107 persons. It was the administrative center of the Borchaly uezd of the

Tiflis Governorate The Tiflis Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire with its administrative center in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi). In 1897, it constituted 44,607 sq. kilometres in area and had a population ...

until 1929, and of the Borchaly Rayon until 1947 when it was transferred to

Marneuli Marneuli ( ka, მარნეული , az, Sarvan) is a town in the Kvemo Kartli region of southern Georgia and administrative center of Marneuli Municipality that borders neighboring Azerbaijan and Armenia. Toponymy According to Georgian so ...

and the district was renamed.

Notable inhabitants

Maro Markarian Maro Yeghishe Markarian (Armenian: Մարո Եղիշեի Մարգարյան) (December 22, 1915, Shulaver, Marneuli region, Georgia – January 28 or 29, 1999, Yerevan, Armenia (buried in Byurakan) was an Armenian poet, translator, member of the ...

, Armenian poet *

Benjamin Markarian Benjamin "Benik" Egishevitch Markarian ( hy, Բենիամին Եղիշեի Մարգարյան) was an Armenian astrophysicist. Markarian's Chain is a group of galaxies which was named after him when he discovered that its members move with a com ...

, Armenian astronomer *

Alexander Melik-Pashayev Alexander Shamil'evich Melik-Pashayev (russian: Александр Шамильевич Мелик-Пашаев; hy, Ալեքսանդր Մելիք-Փաշայան, Alek’sandr Melik’-P’ashayan; 23 October 1905, in Tbilisi – 18 June 1964), P ...

, Armenian conductor

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{{Georgia-geo-stub Populated places in Marneuli Municipality Tiflis Governorate

Notable inhabitants

See also

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