SEARCH SYSTEM OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLAND MONUMENTS

Tambovka 3 Monuments

Georgia (Country) / Javakhk (District) / Ninotzminda (District) / Tambovka (Village)

Location

Tambovka lies on the northern shore of Lake Parvana, 30 kilometres north-east of the district centre of Ninotzminda, at an altitude of 2,080 to 2,090 metres above sea level.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 498.

Population
19 — 20 cc․

In the ‘40s of the 19th century, the ancient village site was re-populated by a number of Russians. In 1914 the local inhabitants amounted to 469.

“Кавказский календарь на 1915 г.”, Тифлис, 1914, стр. 186. Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 498.

Research Materials
1993 — 2000 yy․

In the neighbourhood of Tambovka is preserved an ancient site tracing back to the years between 2000 and 1800 B.C. In the course of the archaeological excavations conducted there in 1993 and resumed in 2000, scholars unearthed some finds of the Middle Bronze and Copper Ages, as well as a tumulus—28 metres in diametre—located at a height of 3 metres. According to Kakha Kakhiany, these findings attest that Tambovka’s “...Georgians have a history of 4,000 years.”