Akhaltsikhe is a small city in Georgia’s southwestern region (mkhare) of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates from Georgian as “”new fortress””.
In the late 1980s the city was host to the Soviet Army’s 10th Guards Motor Rifle Division, which became a brigade of the Georgian land forces after the fall of the Soviet Union.According to the 2002 Census, the city’s population with the many surrounding villages was 46,134. The city proper is currently estimated by locals to be about 20,000. In 2002 the majority were ethnic Georgians (28473, or 61%), with minority of Armenians (16879, or 37%).

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