Akhmetelis Teatri (Tbilisi Metro)

Akhmetelis Teatri ახმეტელის თეატრი
Tbilisi Metro station
General information
Coordinates	41.791762°N 44.815913°E / 41.791762; 44.815913
Owned by	Tbilisi Metro
Platforms	Island platform
Tracks	2+1 Interlocking
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	To be adapted after 2023[1]
History
Opened	7 January 1989 (1989-01-07)
Electrified	750v third rail
Previous names	Gldani
Services
Preceding station Tbilisi Metro Following station Terminus Akhmeteli–Varketili Line Sarajishvili towards Varketili

The Akhmetelis Teatri (Officially translated as Akhmeteli Theatre) (Georgian: ახმეტელის თეატრი) is a northern terminus on the Akhmeteli–Varketili Line of the Tbilisi Metro. It opened on 7 January 1989, alongside Sarajishvili metro station.

The authors of the station project are G. Razmadze and Solomon Cholokashvili. The station serves the neighbourhoods of Gldani District.

The station was originally named as Gldani (Georgian: გლდანი).^[2] The name of the station changed in 1992 after the nearby Akhmeteli Theatre, which is named after Sandro Akhmeteli (1886-1937), a theatre director and one of the founders of the modern Georgian theater, who was tortured and purged under Joseph Stalin and Lavrentiy Beria.^[2]

In recent years, the station and the entrance area experiences heavy crowds and congestions due to the station only having one entrance serving the neighborhoods of several hundred thousand people.^[3]

During the last years of the Soviet Union, works began on a second exit south to the station, but was abandoned after the dissolution of the USSR.^[4] The plans to finish the second exit of the station were introduced in 2022.^[5] As of 2022, EBRD and the Tbilisi Mayor's Office announced that Akhmeteli Theatre would have its second exit completed, and the infrastructure of the station would be adapted for people with disabilities.^[1]

References

1. "Tbilisi metro stations to gain upgraded infrastructure". agenda.ge. 22 November 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
2. "(in Georgian) ვის სახელებს ატარებს თბილისის მეტროსადგურები (Whose names are Tbilisi metro stations named after?)". intermedia.ge. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
3. "We are working on short-term and long-term projects to eliminate the problem at the Akhmeteli Theater Subway Station - Kaladze". Rustavi 2. 16 November 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
4. "M15". YouTube. 26 September 2019.
5. "Tbilisi metro stations to be adapted for people with disabilities". agenda.ge. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2024.

External links

• (in English) Akhmeteli Theatre station page at Tbilisi Municipal Portal