Monuments & public art
Aleksandre Chkhaidze
ალექსანდრე ჩხაიძე
A memorial plaque near Luka Asatiani Street in Old Batumi marks the house where the playwright Aleksandre (Shoshia) Chkhaidze lived from 1968 to 1998.
The Georgian-language plaque is fixed to a house near Luka Asatiani Street in Old Batumi. It records that the writer and public figure Aleksandre (Shoshia) Chkhaidze lived there from 1968 to 1998.
Chkhaidze was born in Batumi in 1924 and died there in 1998. A playwright, writer and journalist, he was named a Merited Art Worker of the Georgian SSR in 1983 and chaired the Adjara union of theatre workers from 1974.
Guide text written by Kartvelio AI.
Sources
- Alexander (Shoshia) Chsaidze memorial plaque.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), consulted on 21 October 2026.
- ალექსანდრე ჩხაიძე (Wikipedia, in Georgian), consulted on 21 October 2026.
