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HISTORY
Water
Management Institute of Georgia is one of the oldest
Scientific-Research Organizations not only in Georgia, but in all
South Caucasus, existing in the field of Water Management and
Irrigation. It was established in 1925, and officially registered in
1929 as the Scientific-Research Institute of Water Management in
Transcaucasia. In 1947 the Institute’s title changed to “Georgian
Scientific-Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Land
Reclamation”. Later the similar institutes were established in
Azerbaijan and Armenia on the basis of the above-mentioned institute
branches. Till 1992, the Institute was subordinated to the USSR
Ministry of Land Reclamation and Water Management. As a result of
disintegration of the USSR (1992) in accordance with the order
issued by the Council of Ministers of Georgia the Institute became
subordinate to the Georgian Academy of Sciences and titled
“Institute of Water Management and Engineering Ecology of Georgian
Academy of Sciences”. In accordance with the resolution No 58 issued
by the Government of Georgia on the 16th day of March, 2006 it was
transformed into the Legal Entity of Public Law and titled
“Institute of Water Management of Georgia”, and based on the
resolution #210 (217 July 2010) of the Government of Georgia
Institute became subordinate to the Technical University of Georgia
and entitled as “Water Management Institute of the Technical
University of Georgia”.
During the different period of times the following people worked or
completed full postgraduate course at the Institute: Ala Magomedova
(Pro-Rector of Dagestan State Technical Institute), Tamaz Zhordania
(Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing of Georgia), Levan
Kiknadze (Legal Assistant of the Council of Ministers of Georgia),
Guram Varshalomidze (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of
Adjara), Michael Kuznecov (Head of the Erosion Department of Moscow
M.Lomonosov State University and Corresponding Member of Russian
Academy of Sciences), Evsey Dolidze (Construction Supervisor of the
Ministry of Construction and Housing of Georgia), Zurab Eristavi
(Supervisor of “Georgian Water Construction”), Sergo Gotsiridze
(Construction Trust Supervisor), Roland Jgerenaia (Director of
Abkhazian Hydraulic Engineering) etc.
For years the staff of the Institute participated in the
implementing of major projects, such as, the diversion of part of
the runoff of North Siberian rivers to Middle Asia; design and
construction of water management facilities in Algeria, Syria, Cuba,
Kazakhstan, Greece; the designing of 100km coastal zone buttressing
work of the Caspian Sea (1995-1998), Russia (1981-1982); determining
the design parameters of the Mingechauri complex reservoir and of an
earth-fill dam; reclamation of the swamped territories of Kolkheti;
the Tiriponi canal and designing the facilities depending on it: the
Upper and Lower Samgori irrigation systems: the Institute took
direct part in the implementation of the project of the Upper
Alazani main canal project. Many innovations were introduced at the
implementation of this project, including the construction of earth
embankments along the route of the main canal by the technology of
dumping into water.
The practice obtained was used in the construction of 23 dams of
land-reclamation purpose in Georgia, such as the Algeti, Zonkari,
Dali mountain, etc. Apart from building dams by the technology of
dumping into ground water, the project of hydraulic filling was
developed at the Institute (the dam of the manganese waste dump at
Chiatura) and at construction with pin-point blasts (the dam of the
zinc dump at Kvaisa). The Institute carried out the expertise in
Algeria in connection with the possible deformation of five
earth-fill dams, at the construction of two each new dams in Syria
and Azerbaijan, to design bank protection structures on the Kodori
and Alazani rivers, in order to rehabilitate the water-dividing unit
on the Rioni river near Poti and 75 the environmental protection
structures in the Baku-Supsa pipeline corridor.
Throughout its existence the Institute has carried on diverse
scientific contacts and joint studies with various scientific,
design, construction organizations and Universities of the USA,
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, China, Israel, Austria, Nederland,
Turkey, Germany, Greece, Japan, Romania, Syria, Cuba, Iraq, and
Bulgaria.
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