Adzhameti Preserve

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Adzhameti Preserve

 

in the western Georgian SSR, in the Rion basin. It has an area of 4,800 hectares. The Adzhameti Preserve was created in 1946 for the preservation of relict species, such as the Imereti oak (Quercus Imeretina), Hartwiss oak (Quercus Hartwissiana), and zelcova.

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