Tskaltubo Georgia

  • Dates
    2018 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Landscape, Editorial, Documentary
  • Locations Georgia, Kutaisi, Imereti

Tskaltubo is a town in the country of Georgia where Soviet-era buildings were abandoned in 1991 but then shortly after inhabited by refugees who remain living there today.

The town of Tskaltubo was a popular holiday and health treatment destination during the Soviet Union.

Over 100,000 visitors from the USSR came to the medical and spa facilities of Tskaltubo annually with the belief that the region’s water had healing properties.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, these grandiose sanatorium complexes were abandoned.

That was until the Abkhazian conflict of 1992, which resulted in the displacement of tens of thousands of people who made these empty buildings into temporary shelters.

25 years later, hundreds of the same internationally displaced people and their extended families remain living within these crumbling relics of the former Soviet Union.

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