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Explore #241: Abandoned School, and WW2 memorial, Georgia – October 2018

April 1, 2021

Georgia, Military Sites, Schools and Educational

Explore #5 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour After leaving Tbilisi, we drove out into the Georgian countryside to hunt down some possible leads from our research. Our mission was to visit various small villages to try and find abandoned ‘Houses of Culture’ – very grand village halls / cultural centres which formed the hubs for community gatherings during Soviet times. Our search was fairly successful, and my reports of those are coming up right after this one… Abandoned School, somewhere…

Explores #240 and #240A (revisit): Ex-Soviet Theatre and Entertainment Hall, Tbilisi, Georgia – October 2018 and July 2019

Explore #4 of the ‘Love Bears’ Tour History This theatre and entertainment hall was built over a century ago in the European Neoclassical style. During the Soviet era it was used as a cinema / movie theatre, and was the meeting place of Officers in the army. Other parts of the complex were a gathering place for poets, musicians, and other artists, as well as journalists. Whilst the rest of the building is still in use to this day, this…