Gulripshi

Gulripshi გულრიფში, Гәылрыҧшь
Urban Type Settlement
Gulripshi Gulripshi Gulripshi
Coordinates: 42°55′53″N 41°06′22″E / 42.931418°N 41.106128°ECoordinates: 42°55′53″N 41°06′22″E / 42.931418°N 41.106128°E
Country	Abkhazia (de facto) Georgia (de jure)
District	Gulripshi District
Population (2011)
• Total	3,910[1]

Gulripshi (Georgian: გულრიფში, [gulripʰʃi]; Abkhaz: Гәылрыҧшь, Gwylryphsh; Russian: Гульрыпш, Gulrypsh) is an urban settlement in Abkhazia.^{[Note 1]} It is located 12 km from Sukhumi, and is the capital of Gulripshi district.

Nikolay Smetskoy built three sanatoria in Gulripsh between 1902 and 1913 for patients with pulmonary diseases and founded several parks with subtropical plants.^[2] After the Russian Revolution the sanatoria were nationalised.

Climate

Gulripshi has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa).

Climate data for Gulripshi
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Daily mean °C (°F)	5.7 (42.3)	6.3 (43.3)	9.3 (48.7)	12.6 (54.7)	17.1 (62.8)	20.7 (69.3)	23.4 (74.1)	23.9 (75)	20.6 (69.1)	16.7 (62.1)	11.9 (53.4)	8.2 (46.8)	14.7 (58.47)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	126 (4.96)	107 (4.21)	118 (4.65)	124 (4.88)	97 (3.82)	122 (4.8)	117 (4.61)	132 (5.2)	136 (5.35)	137 (5.39)	140 (5.51)	151 (5.94)	1,507 (59.32)
Source: Climate-Data.org[3]

Smetskoy's sanatorium (postcard)

References

1. Abkhazia's status is disputed. It considers itself to be an independent state, but this is recognised by only a few other countries. The Georgian government and most of the world's other states consider Abkhazia de jure a part of Georgia's territory. In Georgia's official subdivision it is an autonomous republic, whose government sits in exile in Tbilisi.

1. http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/gulripsh11.html (Russian)
2. "Наше Наследие" № 63-64 2002. Творец зеленой Третьяковки (Russian)
3. "Climate: Gulripshi". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 7 April 2014.