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Orlovka 2 Monuments

Georgia (Country) / Javakhk (District) / Akhalkalak (District) / Orlovka (Village)

Location

Orlovka is situated in the territory among the villages of Metz Khanchali, Gorelovka and Spasovka, on the left bank of the tributary Bughdashen, 7.5 kilometres south-east of the district centre of Ninotzminda, 24 kilometres south-east of Akhalkalak in a straight line, at an altitude of 2,030 to 2,060 metres above sea level.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 547.

Historical Introduction

Before the arrival of Russian Dukhobors, the village was known by the name of Akhmasi deriving from a lake located in its north-west.

“Тифлисский листок”, 1909, N 191, стр. 5. Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 547.

Population
1909 — 1914 yy․

In 1909 Orlovka had 107 houses with 952 Russian inhabitants, whose number had been reduced to 797 by 1914.

ბერძენიშვილი ნ., idem, p. 68. Кавказский календарь на 1915 г.”, Тифлис, 1914, стр. 182. Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 547.

1990 — 2004 yy․

In the 1990s, the Georgian authorities resettled 10 Georgian families from the remote parts of Georgia in Orlovka and the neighbouring village of Yepremovka. However, the incomers who enjoyed many privileges granted by the state did not stay long in their new place of residence—prior to the year 2004, only two of these families still lived in the village.

მაისურაძე კ., ჯავახეთში ქართული სკოლები იხურდება, “Georgian Times”, N 24, 17-24.06.2004: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 547.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Akhmas