In frame of project, the Soviet Past Research Laboratory has developed a new walking-educational tour in Gori – a city whose identity, for decades, has been hijacked and overwhelmed by the cult and mythologized biography of Joseph Stalin.

The tour, which also serves as an educational resource, offers the public an opportunity to explore the erased and untold stories that have shaped Gori’s experience since the Soviet Russian occupation of Georgia in 1921.

The route begins at the old railway bridge and moves toward the city center, tracing the traumatic marks left by the totalitarian regime. Participants visit sites such as the former military cemetery of the People's Guard of the Democratic Republic of Georgia destroyed by the Soviet regime, the former Cheka (Soviet state terror apparatus) building, the old district prison, the former Amilakhvari residence, the home of France’s national hero Dimitri Amilakhvari and the Stalin Museum.

The tour has already been presented and handed over free of charge to teachers, guides, and the local community. The tour brochure is available in both Georgian and English.

Project was funded by the Embassy of the French Republic.