Monuments & public art
Otar and Tamaz Chiladze
თამაზ და ოთარ ჭილაძეები
A granite memorial plaque near Luka Asatiani Street in Old Batumi marks the house where the writers Tamaz and Otar Chiladze lived.
The granite plaque marks a house near Luka Asatiani Street in Old Batumi where the brothers Tamaz and Otar Chiladze lived in the 1930s and 1940s.
Tamaz Chiladze (1931–2018) was a poet, playwright and prose writer whose play The Aquarium was staged at the Rustaveli Theatre in 1965. Otar Chiladze (1933–2009) was a novelist and poet, author of A Man Was Going Down the Road and The Iron Theatre, and editor of the literary magazine Mnatobi from 1997.
Sources
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- Tamaz and Otar Chiladze memorial plaque (Wikimedia Commons), consulted on 21 October 2026.
- Tamaz Chiladze (Wikipedia), consulted on 21 October 2026.
- Otar Chiladze (Wikipedia), consulted on 21 October 2026.