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Georgia's Metallurgical Industry - October 2024

  • Writer: leocook21
    leocook21
  • Apr 27
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 31

Located 30km away from the capital, this large industrial complex began operations in the 1948 and was one of the most important factories during the Soviet period. It produced various products made from pig iron, aluminium or iron. This is Georgia's metallurgical industry.


Wide landscape with two tall smokestacks, abandoned structures, overgrown vegetation, and a rusty train car under a cloudy sky. Mood: desolate.

The plant produced seamless pipes for the needs of oil fields in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and the Middle East. The plant exports to the European Union, the United States, Middle Eastern, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey markets.


View through a broken wall of an abandoned factory with rusted pipes and blue building, overgrown vegetation, and cloudy sky.

This was somewhere I found completely by chance whilst looking around Google maps prior to flying out to Georgia. The town of Rustavi was about a 30 minute bus away from the city, then finding a marshrutka to drive us in the direction of these steel works. The site was massive and we only scratched the surface of it, so it's in dire need of a revisit. If anywhere is going to look like it's part of the apocalypse then it's definitely here, where the things to look out for are sleeping stray dogs and bits of dead looking ground that look like they've been met with chemicals they most definitely shouldn't have.


Rundown brick building with debris, overcast sky, large concrete structure in background, green foliage surrounding, somber mood.
Abandoned factory with tall chimneys amidst overgrown weeds and rubble under a cloudy sky. Foreground shows scattered blue debris.


This was also very close to the border of Azerbaijan which was interesting. Our phones started getting Azerbaijan related advertisements pop up.











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