Monthly Newspaper

March #13, 2014

GeorgianManganese

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Happy Women’s Days!..

Ani Mirotadze: “To a great extent the population of Chiatura is depended on the proper work of the company and I want “Georgian Manganese” to work properly.”

Here comes the spring and with it, two festivals to celebrate in Georgia-Mother’s Day and International Women’s Day. I would like to congratulate each lady who is an active member of “The Georgian Manganese’s” large staff and who contribute in the success of the company and the whole cou-ntry.

Women’s labour at any position in the field of heavy industry is to be particularly appreciated and we are fully-aware of it. We wish you good health and happiness, successful steps at work.

I think we will be able to realize the tasks we have set together and make our working environment a better place.

With respect, Director of “Georgian Manganese” Velvel Lozynskyy

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She has never tried hard for being popular. Once, there was a competi-tion announced by the local authority to compose a song about the native town, and the terms of the competi-tion meant that both a composer and author of the lyrics must be from Zes-taponi. A musician Khvicha Mched-lidze visited Naira and asked her to write a poem about the town. It was not difficult for her and she immedia-tely wrote the lyrics, as she tells us, she never had the expectation that the competition judges would give prio-rities to her poem.

At present, she is facing the same task but with a slight difference. She has got a suggestion from the head of Culture Department, Khatuna Asatia-ni to participate in the competition on the same topic which is due to occur in the near future. Naira says that she has written so many nice poems that will never need to create a new one.

What else can we say? Just wish her success. Naira is thinking about publis-hing a collection of her poems, even if it is a children’s collection, as she has written more than 200 poems; what’s more, there are not so many works created in this di-rection and nobody can think that she is too caring about the young ones.

The talent in art is noticeable in Mrs Shekiladze’s children, but in other fields. Her son, who works as a founder at N4 Department, is a wonderful drawer in pencil, and her daughter has a considerable success in Choreography.

When we asked our respondent to name her most favourite poem, af-ter a long hesitation she opened her handwritten collection and pointed at an medium poem; its portentous tit-le made us present the poem to you, which the author marked out from her 20-year-old creations.

Rusudan Abashidze

When Naira started writing, she was twenty years old and already married. She used to write in secret but one incident revealed her aspiration

I will introduce one of the represen-tatives of these modest beauty-creators even though she is quite well known at the Ferroalloy Plant. This is a decorator, Mrs Naira Shekiladze. She has worked at the plant for almost 35 years and is as good at creating works of arts in real life as on a piece of paper.

You can often see her among beau-tiful flowers and bushes in the newly-constructed garden in front of the Plant hotel. She looks after each plant as if she had a motherly care to each of them. In the greenery she is in a class of her own, but not only there…

Mrs Shekiladze started writing poems in her childhood, the beauty of her countryside inspired her.. Her village is called Vardigora, which in English means “a Hill of Roses”; it is a historic place with a long history, since Queen Tamar’s reign. Each sto-ne, each valley has deep roots in the Georgian past.

People say that once Queen Tamar rode by the countryside with roses in her hand, suddenly she dropped the

flowers and the place was given the name of the royal roses.

Naira often boasts that she spent her childhood opposite Vardigora, in the neighborhood of Skandi Castle which was the residence of Kings of Imereti. She used to walk around the castle wall hoping that she would once put on the paper the feeling of pride which arose here. In those days and among steady walls of the tower, her childish gullibili-ty didn’t allow her subdue the desire to write. She managed to do it later…

When Naira started writing, she was twenty years old and already married. She used to write in secret but one incident revealed her aspira-tion. In Zestaponi, She is known as an author of nursery poems but from her poems it is obvious that 80% of them develop different subjects.

She writes with a plain and beau-tiful language, with the style as pretty as her countryside, she writes about her motherland, love, happiness, writes about people who made an impression on her, she writes about heroes, her villagers, she writes about her worries, Abkhazia…about everything that her muse tolls and inspires.

March #13, 2014 Georgian ManganesePORTRAIT

Among the courageous and motivated people who work in the field of Metallurgy, it is hard to imagine that there are people who are arts men, who paint, write, create aesthetics and never worry when nobody is interested in their modest creations.

“But I know, the higher I go, the steeper the steps become”

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Since 2007, “Georgian Mangane-se” has made serious investments to restore all four stations of the cascade. Gradually, but in very short time, the company completely renewed hydro-aggregates and electricity supply li-nes. When such powerful enterprise operates its each link with absolute precision, everyone is happy to go

to work since each hour spent there makes their lives happier.

This is Nato’s opinion and she ca-rries out her duties with absolute de-dication.

Controller’s office is responsible for

Mrs Nato Tabatadze is a head of the shift service at the Controller’s Office at “Vart-sikhe-2005” N1 Hydroelectric Station. She was employed here after graduating Georgian Technical University. In 1990ies it was not easy to say whether a young electrical engineer could succeed but after founding the mining and metallurgical com-pany “Georgian Manganese” with a concept of a hydroelectric station, the rhythm of cascade was considerably changed to better. At present, the days when the whole staff was trying hard to maintain the power, are left behind. Nato as well as the whole staff of “Vartsikhe” are lucky to have met a new century here.

the safe and economical operation. Vol-tage control means systematic monito-

ring and the head of the shift registers in a special log all important moments indicating time of night-day shift. The log is a mirror of each passed hour and

any noteworthy nuance of transferring shift by engineers and technical staff is scrupulously described.

For a lady, it must be difficult to spend nights at work but Nato Taba-tadze thinks opposite. She considers that for a woman, mother, wife, it is a wonderful job as she does housework at weekends much better and pays more attention to her family mem-bers. Leaving at home everything in order, changes not much during a day and following day offs provide more free time, Nato can judge from her experience.

It should be noted that since 2007, the director of “Vartsikhe 2005 “ Mr Zaza Uplisashvili, has been inviting us, the representatives of mass media, to the celebratory events of the com-pany, mostly they were connected with opening of new or renovated ag-gregate!

And working at a new or renova-ted site is interesting, this is what the head of the shift service emphasized when talking with us.

Lia Michitashvili

March #13, 2014Georgian Manganese PORTRAIT

Ladies’ Working Team-One for All

TEAM

This service was established in 2012 when the Ministry of Revenue introduced a new weigh bill system which created a simpler and more mobile environment for tax-payers.

There are about 50 spots defined at Chiatura Mine Enrichment Com-plex from where freight is transpor-ted. The freight includes concentrates which is sent from the mine enrich-ment factories to the Central factory, intervening product which flows from the open-cast mine to be thrown away into the bunker and any other freight which moves from one site of the complex to another; all, listed above, must be recorded and accom-panied with a weigh bill.

Before transporting, any sort of fre ight as a rule, is registered on the Revenue Service website; a driver transporting the fright does not need to carry any document with him as by the means of transport which he is driving, it is already registered in the data base proving the information on the amount and variety of freight.

Mining Enrichment Complex was involved in this transparent process from its start and thanks to informa-tional and technological services, one

of the most powerful and organized structure was established.

The structure is run by nine wonder-ful ladies, the members of Controller’s Office of the Production Department of the Complex; they work in shifts. The working day starts early in the morning and lasts until late at night when the last freight is registered; the team of the la-dies was established on the first stage of the reorganization of employment ser-vice and they were selected here from different positions.

It is put down to the leader’s, Mzia Baratashvili’s, credit that the team is warm and friendly. Their everyday working mood is based on order and responsibility.

While talking with them, we got interested in problems too. We were convinced once more that work for these ladies truly equals to family and like in their own families, here, they solve anything they need to decide. They explained that the management is always in the know and they have

such working conditions that they ne-ver grumble.

We would like to wish success and progress to these industrious ladies!

Lia Michitashvili

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Since 2007, “Georgian Manganese” has made serious investments to restore all four stations of the cascade

When Working is Pleasure!..

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causes people’s protest which I I completely share and look for the ways to solve it. Another problem is an issue of water supply. In the 21st century, it is impossible to have polluted water in the taps and population are not able to use it. This problem is being looked to and I hope it will be solved too.

No doubt, lots of things have been done in the town, but it is still

too little as so many problems have pi-

led up during past years. Building and reconstructing a cable way is due to start soon. Local government does a lot to renovate old, damaged and harmful for life infrastructure with new, well equip-

ped, modern technologies. The town has been assisted by French colleagues in this important issue. Within 18 months, roads to the many villages were recons-tracted, where it had been impossible to move because of the old infrastructure. Road constraction will be next year’s priority too. Together with the Ministry of Energy and “Socar” Company, the project of village gasification is being elaborated. There are some more pro-jects but time is needed to realise them,

and like the region population I am very much looking forward to it.

– “How can you assess the activity of the company “Georgian Mangane-se”, actually the only company functio-

“It is my town, my roots are here, it is my patrimonial basis and I am very proud that I originate from here,” says the member of Parliament, a member of “National Forum” Ani Mirotadze. She hasn’t lived in Chiatura for a very long time, she says that she has special attitude to her town, though.

“The town has its own history, biography and I think people should have more dignified, respectable life. Chiatura has natural wealth which should be used for improving elementary social conditions. I have been constantly thinking how I can help the population of the region, I have been asking several ministers. When I phone them, the first question I hear is: “What is the matter? Are you still concerned about Chiatura?” And often, it is so-people who live here need our help, some live in the houses which were damaged by earthquake, some of their houses were “destroyed by the mines” and people have to survive in the railway carriages, some of them have health problems and are poor, most of them are worried about unemployment etc. Problems are plenty, the list is endless! I am sometimes able to help, sometimes I am not and consequently am always concer-ned,” says MP.

“I visited the town several days ago, met the governor of the region, we were going to discuss some problematic issues. I came across two high school students in his room. The girls told me that they were graduating school this year and were concerned and were demanding the answers to some problems, particu-larly, why the governor Sulkhan Makhatadze had not been able to solve the problems which the town and its residents faced. We had a long conversation and while leaving, they firmly stated that they would not stop their attempts and would even fight as the town ought to have a better future. My emotions were so strong that I am still under impression, I am pleasantly surprised and a bit scared too-what if we can’t?! if we fail?! However, I don’t want to think that we can’t manage. We must do it, by all means”! says Ani Mirotadze.

And our interview also starts with discussing the town problems.

I don’t want to think that we can’t manage. We must do it, by all means!

– You are actually involved in the town problems. What are they today?

– “I don’t have a list of specific pro-blems, of course. I am not MP voted by majority, it is just my great desire to solve the problems. When I am at the Parliament in Kutaisi, and have some free hours, I try to visit Chiatu-ra, though sometimes it is impossible. The first issue which worries me a lot is that actually, there is no hospital in the region. The towm residents, as well as peopele from remote villages have to go to the hospitals located either in Zestaponi or Sachkhere and even the-re they face a lot of problems. People never go to hospitals until they feel re-

ally bad, it is a habit in Georgia, and they do go when their conditions are extremely difficult, but there is none in their region to help. In Sachkhere, there is a very good medical centre es-tablished by Bidzina Ivanihvili where treatment was free of charge and many lives were saved but in my opinion, this hostipal cannot serve two towns. The miners’ town where people work under high risk and danger, should have their hospital. At present the-re is only one 25-patient hospital and people with different diagnoses, el-derly people or children, women and men are located next to each other...it is not normal. Having no hospital

INTERVIEW March #13, 2014 Georgian Manganese

Ani Mirotadze: “To a great extent the population of Chiatura is depended on the proper work of the company and I want “Georgian Manganese” to work properly.”

5these interests and responsibilities, lots of problems will be solved in Chiatura. For example, it will be easier to plan and realise social projects effectively.

Despite the problems, I still believe that the company helps many people, it has no other choice. The main function of an investor is not just focus on profit. His main responsibilities include defen-ding the rights of his employees. It is a

reality that the main source of the town income is the miners’ proper employ-ment and the majority of the population are employed there. I am well-aware of this fact and do not belong to the group of people who constantly sees only bad, or demands the maximum from an in-

ning in the region and the main source of people’s income.”

– I can often hear many positive viewpoints as well as demands. I think it is a natural process. Not everyone can be happy especially in the country where social condition is very hard, and whatever different social aid policies can “Georgian Manganese” undertake, not everyone’s needs will be satisfied. In my opinion, government and inves-

tors should help each other and seek the ways to work together; this will finally lead us to the result which is necessary for the both sides. I understand that busi-ness has its own interests, the governemt has interests and responsibilities. If there is the coincidence and interpretation of

I consider that investors also need support and assistance. As far as I know, some ways of cooperation between the state and the investor are already established

vestor. I consider that investors also need support and assistance. As far as I know, some ways of cooperation bet-ween the state and the investor are al-ready established, but closer cooperation will be really profitable for the both si-des. If they define priorities together too, they will help the population more. For example, together with the government, the investor should also be interested in having a well-equipped hospital in the region.

– You might know that “Georgian Manganese” has initiated a lot of acti-vities, all employees are provided with health insurance, environmental pro-jects are on their way, among them the the process of recultivation, a question of installing a new enterprise proces-sing manganum is being discussed to renovate technologically the existing one. How will you assess these activi-ties?

– “I know that the company has such projects and it is very good. Unfortuna-tely, I am not quite familiar in its acti-vities and it will be hard to be specific. Mining manganum is quite a difficult process and is connected with hard phy-sical labour. Furthermore, such an acti-

vity causes damage to the environment and it is logical that mining company should be interested and feel responsible to realise the environmental projects. If investors are well aware of different ac-tions, for example, recultivating process in order to cause less damage to the envi-ronment and eliminate damage, this will be only welcomed.”

“I know that the town population is mostly depended on the company’s pro-per functioning and I want it to work properly. In general, I am against inves-tors’ leaving the country. Conversely, if anything is needed for my country, it is more investment, more working places, more employed people and strong fa-milies, that should create the basis for the strong country. The main challenge of Georgia today is economical stabili-zation. Consequently, the state and the investor should be well aware of each other’s importance and a well-defined agenda of their relationships. All in all, if there arises a problem in relationships with an investor, both parts should sta-te, where the problem is and where the outcome should be sought.”

Nino Tabatadze

PROFESSION

There are eleven employees alto-gether at the department, each leads a project into one specific direction, whether it is for electrical systems, in the mechanical part or site construction. Tasks are distributed by project functions and this is Ms Kvinikadze’s priority; she gets these tasks from the head of the Plant and chief engineer.

The department constantly works on several projects at a time; the chief cons-tructor is responsible for their organization and construction; to avoid mistakes and inaccuracy, she often has to go up to 28th scale, i.e. on the final, highest benchmark of the furnaces; she should make sure, spe-cify and familiarize with everything she should finally represent in the project.

Under her supervision, working on one of the most complicated and res-ponsible project has been completed re-cently, it deals with reconstructing work of N1 and N2 smelting furnaces. The project with its content was novel, and with its volume intensive as it involved such alteration and technological inno-vations of the aggregates which deman-ded engineers and constru ctors’ greatest endeavor.

The Chief Constructor’s Most Responsible Project Is Yet to Be…

The briefer description of the chief constructor’s working environment is impossible. The ideas concerning the organization of all constructing and re-constructing sites are created here daily. At the plant, this space is called “Project Birthplace” and it is true: any stroke made here becomes reality, and this re-ality is visible everywhere at the Plant.

Makvala Kvinikadze, the head of the Project Department at the Plant, is a per-son who is responsible for calculating precise measures and shapes for the pro-ject constructions. With her status, she is an excellent example of maintaining the gender balance at the Plant. But, when dealing with all duties is not an easy task even for a stronger sex, talking about gender balance is a bit awkward.

Mrs Kvinikadze herself, neither ac-cepts not rejects the idea about sex equa-lity. She says that at the Plant, her profes-sion often exceeds woman’s potentials but if you know your job well, love it and have many like-minded colleagues-nothing is impossible.

In her room, there is a total chaos- project paper of different sizes and formats are piled up. There are lots of strokes and lines on large white paper, the drawings are full of precisely calculated inner and outer capacities of electric furnaces and aggregate details…projects are innumerable…everything connec-ted with the Ferroalloy Plant, is recorded and sorted here.

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Nothing is impossible

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Once, Maia and her mum were sent to Kvaisa (Samachablo) to work at Lead and Zink Mining where their Institute was conducting the experiment to implement a new method on enriching the mines.

Thanks to the reconstruction, the electrical grid of South Ossetia joined the electrical circular grid of Georgia. The work was so gigantic that young specialists from all large enterprises of Georgia were in-volved in it.

Valeri Khvedelidze was also sent to Kvaisa but from the enterprise “Chiatur-manganum”. A young specialist spent 1981-85 working there. He witnessed the birth and development of Kvaisa and its

infrastructure; Kvaisa mining Department contacted a 110-kilo watt substation in a town of Oni, which was a serious step made those days.

Maia Kurtskhalia and Valeri Khve-delidze, today a chief power-engineer at Mine-Enrichment Industrial Complex of Chiatura, met each other in Kvaisa. Soon, their friendship turned into love. Maia quickly agreed to live in Chiatura, never having planned to live far from the capital but when there is comfort and love in the family, the time flies, kids grow up quickly and there is no time for boredom.

When the children grew up, Maia star-ted working. She worked at the Human Resources Department in Interconnection. She got to know Chiatura better, found out that every second miner used to be her father’s student and the region became more familiar to her. She was filled with pride when generations coming to work in the mines remembered and respected her father, the professor Vakhtang Kurtskha-lia. Her husband’s parents were prominent people too. Her father in-law, Alexander Khvedelidze was an educator. The ances-tors still keep a book at home called “A Russian Word” on which there are written great-grandfather’s words: ”I pray to God

to send my children a gift of love to books and people’s love!” The quotation is made by the ashes taken from the fireplace as there was no pen or pencil available.

The years passed together in the Chia-tura mines made their love and family even stronger. The energetics of the enter-prise is complicated with its functions as well as infrastructure. Maia has a smile on her face recollecting not very remote past when her husband constantly missed his kids. There were moments when during a week or two, he was able to caress them only in their sleep.

Time passed, the whole 30 years. Lek-so and Natia graduated the university and got married. Both live in Tbilisi with their families and each has two children. Maia’s husband has been a power specialist of the enterprise for years, and Maia has been running a laboratory at the Central Factory since “Georgian Manganese” became an owner of the mine.

As we already mentioned, time flew quickly and the loving family made firm grounds. For Maia Kurtskhalia, Chiatura has become a native town, and the indus-trial factory turned into her second family; her husband’s whole life is associated with it and Maia is a participant of successful and unsuccessful years spent at Chiatura mining.

And it goes on like that until now-there are beautiful, lively and happy moments even during hard times as love is the basis of her life. The 30th wedding anniversary is called “A Pearl Anniversary”, the name of the purest precious stone. Mrs Kurts-khalia and Mr Khvedelidze’s family is as beautiful and pure as a pearl.

Lia Michitashvili

Maia Kurtskhalia finished 100th Secondary school and wan-ted to become a doctor but her pa-rents made her change her mind. They might not have wanted this fragile girl to be in Medicine. In the 1980s, Chemical Industry became one of the leading fields and Maia’s parents advised her to continue her studies at the Technical University of Georgia where her father wor-ked as a deputy dean at Mining Faculty. Mother was a geologist and was working at the Caucasian Institute of Mineral Materials. After graduating the Faculty of Chemistry, Maia was employed at her mother’s Institute.

Not less important is the project on which our respondent is wor-king with her team- it is a preliminary reconstructing work in order to locate se-parating section on the site of solidified magma procession. Since a separator re-presents the unity of aggregate and insta-llation, for their orderly and synchronous operation the management demands the high level of projection. The chief cons-tructor of the plant is sure that the engi-neers and constructors of the department will overcome the obstacles and contri-bute in developing infrastructure and te-chnology of the Ferroalloy Plant.

Professional engineer-constructor star-ted her working career at the Battery Plant of Shorapani. She worked as a constructor at the mechanical workshop and after gaining sufficient practical ex-perience, the plant was closed down. She tried hard several times to find a job in

her field but there were no vacancies. But once, when she read about a vacan-cy of engineer-constructor advertised in

“Georgian Manganese”, she understood that there came time when she would start working after a 13-year interval.

Mr Viacheslav Yanaev, the head of the Project Department of that time, got introduced with Ms Kvinikadze’s re-sume and professional experience and decided to employ her as a constructor. During next two years, she served as a deputy-chief of the Department. For last three years, she has been the head of the Project Department; this was the only case in the history of the Project De-partment of the Plant when a woman has taken so many responsibilities.

Except working duties, Mrs Kvinika-dze copes with family responsibilities too. Three children, husband, family idyll and maternal love…isn’t it a res-ponsibility too? But it is obvious that the projector of fire and metal tempe-ring constructions, can easily manage all other life “projects”.

Rusudan Abashidze

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March #13, 2014 Georgian ManganeseFAMILY

The chief constructor of the plant is sure that the engineers and constructors of the department will overcome the obstacles

Built on Love, Based on Love…

She was filled with pride when generations coming to work in the mines remembered and respected her father

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Mr Gvelesiani has recently celebra-ted his 68th birth anniversary. Two years ago he was retired but his colleagues still remember and respect him. They con-sider that David’s working experience has been an uncompromising struggle, full of confrontations and obstacles in the field of Engineering and Metallurgy. They are surprised at Mr Gvelesiani’s aptitude to reach all the goals he set for himself. 50 years of his employment were impeccable, not a single remark, no criticism has he ever received from his employers. Anybody, who is aware of the field of Metallurgy, knows how hard it is to reach such “idyll”.

We had a close look at David’s wor-king experience and something that cau-ght our eyes was the abundance of his rationalizing ideas. Most of them have

been taken into consideration in different decades, under different management and regime.

All his past life was dedicated to the Ferroalloy Plant and it is obvious that those 12 years, when Mr Gvelesiani was a chief engineer, was the representation of his professionalism. He was awarded a Medal of Dignity by the President of

Georgia. It was the highest recognition among a lot of other medals and prizes.

Being still at school, David set him-self future plans to success. Before be-coming a student to get technical edu-cation, he worked as a foreman at the Communication Department, later as an electrolysis operator in 3rd Department. At that time the department produced

pure manganese and David got introdu-ced with the basics of metallurgy. He was quite inquisitive and quickly understood the essence of his job, the hardest and most risky profession of a metallurgist and made up his mind to become one.

He continued studying at Tbilisi Po-ly-technical Institute, specialized in elec-tro-chemical production and as a spe-

50 years of his employment were impeccable, not a single remark, no criticism has he ever received from his employers

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NINO GELASHVILI!They met at work and their friendship grew into a close and beautiful relationship.

It didn’t take them long to decide to wed. Colleagues and co-workers were the happiest people to hear the news. They celebrated another corporate wedding.

The newly-weds are Sergo Arjevanidze, the head of Salary Registry Bureau at the Central Accountancy Office and Nino Gelashvili, an engineer at the Labor Department.

The newspaper “Georgian Manganese” and the staff of the Ferroalloy Plant are wis-hing you a wonderful journey as you build your new life together.!!!

Seldom has anybody had such long working experience at the Ferroalloy Plant, as Mr David Gvelesiani, a chief engineer of the company, the person who spent 47 years working here and made everyone remember himself with his fully-realized professional skills.

cialist of technical engineer, he returned to the plant. He worked as a foreman, a chief foreman, a head of the workshop…everyday routine at the plant helped Da-vid to combine his theoretical knowled-ge with considerable practical experien-ce, all this helped him to go up on the career ladder…

David spent ten years working in di-fferent workshops and gained sufficient experience; the management decided to appoint him head of the technical de-partment.

From this period Mr Gvelesiani started intensive work on rationalizing ideas, particularly, on reconstructing supporting landing stage at the work-shop of processing sodified magma, on prolonging the exploitation period of thermal ovens etc. He is the author of about thirty rationalizing ideas and two inventions. David’s innovation-the structural variety of wooden roof tile for foundry equipment-was registered at the Georgian Patent Department. At the same time, Mr Gvelesiani was actively

involved in the process of new scientific researches. The activities mentioned let him become the specialist of the highest category, the excellent example of pro-fessionalism at the Plant.

The most prolific and interesting for Mr Gvelesiani were those last twelve years of practical employment at the Plant which he spent as an chief engi-neer. For him, these were the years of uncompromised struggle, overcoming the hardest time of crisis and hopeless situations. With his colleagues’ devotion and tremendous effort the chief engineer of the plant have managed to dissolve the most serious problems and save the plant and production from crises.

His common sense and rational de-cisions brought him collaborators’ love and respect. This attitude is obvious even today, co-workers remember the chief engineer and congratulate him on his 68th birth anniversary and wish him long and healthy life.

Rusudan Abashidze

March #13, 2014Georgian Manganese SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYEE

What is Said is Done in the Uncompromising Battle!

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Spare time is rare. The engineer constructor at the Project Department of the Ferroalloy Plant has a hard wor-king schedule, she often has to work on several projects and has no time for drawing but Jana’s working table is always full of small sketches, quick lines and graphic figures, “it happens only sometimes, when I can’t resist drawing,” she explains.

Jana has created several portraits of her colleagues, all of them are women, by the way. They are the people who told us about Jana’s talent in drawing and we decided to introduce her to the readers of our newspaper. Because of her modest nature, Jana refrained from exhibiting her works but couldn’t re-sist our persistence and agreed to let us into her room for a while.

Jana told us the history of each creation made in pencil, of something very attractive and inspiring, explai-ned what viewpoint each drawing bears, what is implied beyond mysti-que lights and shades and what conno-tation each natural and strange figure conveys…

Ms Tabagari is as interesting at conversing as her drawings are-plain, interesting, substantial, what else might viewers wish when they visit art galleries?! Even though Jana’s room loaded with drawings is not a gallery, the place creates not less interesting environment.

Of course, she has always had a great desire to draw and wanted to con-nect her life with the art of painting but at a crucial moment, she made up her mind to choose a related profession-Constructing. She considers that this is the field where a pencil speaks too.

Her parents noticed her love of drawing at an early age. They encou-raged her and tried to create a suitable environment for a little girl who was sitting and drawing. Her parents didn’t protest when she chose a profession of an designer engineer. Ms Babagari’s motif was simple-a talent of drawing always causes a demand to create so-

mething. Perhaps they were well aware that Jana would never leave drawing and it happened so…

Jana can look at paintings only in magazines and different polygraphic publications and it is a kind of pleasu-re for her. She loves Da Vinci, Rem-brandt, likes the Impressionists-Van Gogh, Monet, Manet, Paul Cezanne, respects Surrealism in painting too, though her favourite painter is Piros-mani, a self-educated genius who, according to our respondent, with his simple and individual manner of pain-ting surprised the world.

Painters are the people of a special

artistic value. For them, objects, envi-ronment and people are perceived with the “third eye” the ideological essence of which is obvious on their paintings, then we can perceive and estimate. But Jana doesn’t regard herself as a painter and is not ready to assess her works either. She just explains that she kills her desire. But her special and di-fferent vision even towards everyday moments, immediately makes us think that Jana Tabagari could have become not only a famous artist but a good painter.

Rusudan Abashidze

March #13, 2014 Georgian ManganeseHOBBY

This is where a pencil speaks…Jana Tabagari is a designer engineer, a realist by vocation and an avid

painter. She draws only in pencil and she is best at painting portraits, she likes creating landscapes, still life and making copies of other famous paintings too. In a nutshell, if she has time and a chance, drawing is her favourite activity.