Zakaria Paliashvili Street ( ka, ზაქარია ფალიაშვილის ქუჩა) is a street of

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...

and is named after the Georgian composer

Zacharia Paliashvili Zacharia Petres dze Paliashvili ( ka, ზაქარია ფალიაშვილი, ''Zakaria Paliaşvili''), also known as Zachary Petrovich Paliashvili (russian: Захарий Петрович Палиашви́ли, ''Zacharij Petrovi� ...

. The street 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, from Korneli Kekelidze Street to Archil Mishveladze Street. Paliashvili street originated in the 1920s. Formerly it was called Vake Street, according to the 1926 reference of Tbilisi - Vake Avenue. In he 1925-1926 reference book "All of Tiflis" , the street is included in the list of new streets in Vake. It was named after

in the 1930s. Alexander Tvalchrelidze Caucasus Mineral Resources Institute is on the street. There is a monument of

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia Konstantine Gamsakhurdia ( ka, კონსტანტინე გამსახურდია) (May 3, 1893 – July 17, 1975) was a Georgian writer and public figure. Educated and first published in Germany, he married Western European inf ...

in the square of the same name (sculptor - Tengiz Kikalishvili, architect - Tamaz Tevzadze).

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Bibliography

"Tbilisi. Streets, avenues, squares"
(ენციკლოპედია «თბილისი. ქუჩები, გამზირები, მოედნები»), pg. 175, Tbilisi, 2008.

References

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