Tskhinvali (redirected from Chreba)

Tskhinvali (tskhĭn`välĭ), city (1989 pop. 42,934), capital of South Ossetia, N Georgia. The city has lumber mills and electrical products plants. Its name was changed to Staliniri in 1934 but was changed back to Tskhinvali in 1961. Georgian troops shelled and occupied the city in 1992.

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Tskhinvali 

(from 1934 to 1961, Staliniri), a city (since 1922) and the administrative center of Iuzhnaia Osetiia Autonomous Oblast, Georgian SSR. Situated on the Bol’shoe Liakhvi River, a tributary of the Kura River, at an elevation of 870 m. Joined by railroad line (33 km) with Gori station, on the Samtredia-Baku line. Population, 33,000 (1974). The Emal’provod and Elektrovibromashina plants are located in Tskhinvali. The city also has a repair shop for buses, a machine shop, a chemical plant, a timber combine, and a garment factory. There is food-processing industry (meat-packaging plant, dairy, and cannery) and building materials industry. The Iuzhnaia Osetiia Scientific Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR is located in Tskhinvali. Other educational institutions include a pedagogical institute and schools of agriculture, medicine, music, and art. The Kost Khetagurov Drama Theater (with Ossetiian and Georgian companies) and a museum of local lore are in Tskhinvali.