Disappearing city in Georgia Which Has a Creepy Network of Old Cable Cars

The small town, modestly lost in the mountain vastness of Georgia, impressed the imagination of the traveler, photographer and founder of TEG Bureau - Pavel Makarov, that he spent a few days there, riding on the city's main attractions - the cableway. Chiatura – town of miners, located on two sides of the canyon, which contains dozens of active and broken funiculars, built in the 1950s

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Ghost Town is literally permeated with the spirit of the Soviet era, dilapidated houses and a sense of hopelessness. But once, in Soviet times, it had a great future - for the extraction of huge reserves of ore and manganese. Time goes and everybody forgot this city...

Text and photo: Pavel Makarov

1 Funicular rides over the suburban area.

Passing over the river Kvirila. View from the roof of the existing cableway.

The key attraction of the city - manganese mines, which are located throughout the neighborhood of Chiatura. Anyone who came here can watch the manganese extraction process.

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