Soviet Georgia

Edited by F.F. Davitaya

Progress Pulishers Moscow, hardcover, illustrated.

First printing 1972

This book will acquaint the reader with Georgia, one of the most colourful Republics of the Soviet Union. Nature has generously endowed Georgia with humid subtropies of the Black Sea coast, a variety and wealth of mountain forests, succulent upland pastures, bountiful green valleys and in­numerable rapid riverso People come to Georgia for treat­ment, vacationing and travel. Many health resorts are scat­tered over the sunny shores of the Black Sea and picturesque mountain valleys. Dozens of paths lead to mountain passes. The numerous mineral springs possess curative properties.

In Soviet time the Georgian people have performed a heroic feat, transforming Georgia from a backward outlying area of the tsarist empire into a Hourishing industrial and collective-farm socialist Republic. The authors will guide the reader along the roads of their country, will show its remark­able landscapes and fascinating towns with many carefully preserved old monuments, and will teIl ab out the interesting history of the Georgian people, and their old culture.