{"product_id":"lopukhov-i-p-blooming-adjara-tsvetushchaya-adzhariya-1957-in-russian","title":"Lopukhov, I. P. Blooming Adjara (Tsvetushchaya Adzhariya), 1957. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eЛопухов, И. П. Цветущая Аджария.\u003cbr\u003eБатуми: Государственное издательство, 1957.\u003cbr\u003e328 с., с планами и черно-белыми фотоиллюстрациями ; 20,5 х 14,5 см.\u003cbr\u003eТираж 2000 экз. Издательский коленкоровый переплет кремового цвета с шрифтовой композицией и виньеткой синего цвета на верхней крышке.Состояние: переплет в хорошей сохранности. Внутренний блок крепкий, бумага равномерно пожелтела (характерное свойство советской бумаги 1950-х гг.); титульный лист, тексты и иллюстрации чистые, полные, пагинация не нарушена. Хороший экземпляр редкого регионального издания.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eLopukhov, I. P. Blooming Adjara.\u003cbr\u003eBatumi: State Publishing House, 1957.\u003cbr\u003e328 pp., with plans and black-and-white photographic illustrations ; 20.5 x 14.5 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePrint run 2,000 copies. Publisher's cream cloth binding with title and date in stylized blue lettering and a small floral vignette on the upper board.\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Binding in good preserved state. Text block firm, paper uniformly age-toned (characteristic of Soviet 1950s stock); title page, text, and illustrations clean and complete, pagination intact. A good copy of a scarce regional publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Tsvetushchaya Adzhariya\" (\"Blooming Adjara\") is a substantial single-volume regional study of the Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic — the southwestern, Black-Sea-facing corner of Soviet Georgia, with its capital at Batumi — published locally in Batumi by the Georgian state publishing house in 1957. The book offers a comprehensive synthetic portrait of the region: it traces Adjara's historical past from antiquity through Ottoman rule and incorporation into the Russian Empire to the Soviet period; documents the economic and cultural transformation of the region under Soviet power; describes the rich and unusual subtropical natural environment of the Black Sea littoral, with its tea, citrus, and tobacco plantations; surveys the everyday life and ethnography of the local population (Adjarians being a Muslim Georgian sub-ethnic group with a distinctive cultural profile); catalogues the principal monuments of material culture, from Byzantine and medieval Georgian fortifications to Ottoman-period architecture; and devotes substantial attention to the resort infrastructure of the Batumi–Kobuleti coast and to the fauna and hunting grounds of the Adjarian highlands. With a print run of only 2,000 copies and distribution effectively limited to the small local market, the book is uncommon outside Georgia and has become quite scarce on the international antiquarian market. It is a useful primary source for the history of Soviet Caucasian regional studies (kraevedenie), for the historical geography of Adjara, and for the visual culture of late-Stalin-era Soviet local publishing — including its modest but charming typographic design with subtropical motifs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44287514968106,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1237.jpg?v=1777144974","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/lopukhov-i-p-blooming-adjara-tsvetushchaya-adzhariya-1957-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}