Translation Bureau in Adigeni

A translation bureau for Adigeni - TARGMANEBI's service for a municipality whose villages are separated from one another by gorges and where every trip into town costs time. That is exactly why our whole process is set up so that you do not have to travel: you send a photo of the document, learn the price and the deadline within working hours, receive the finished file by email, and the courier brings the certified paper to Adigeni from the Akhaltsikhe route. Akhaltsikhe is half an hour away, Tbilisi more than three hours, so this arrangement has proved the most convenient for local people.

Energy - small hydropower plants in the gorges

The small plants built and planned on Adigeni's rivers are a separate layer of the local economy. In this field the document is almost always in a foreign language, because the equipment, the design work and often the financing too come from abroad:

The main translation risk in this field is technical units: capacity, head, flow, voltage - every value has its own notation rules, and a mistake here is not just an inaccuracy but a safety issue. So we compare the figures and units against the original as a separate step, and we leave the manufacturer's model numbers unchanged so that identifying a part during servicing causes no difficulty.

Farming, cooperatives, grants

Adigeni's villages live on potatoes, dairy products and livestock, and in recent years cooperatives and family farms have gained access to international programmes. A grant application is a genre of its own: it has a strict structure, indicators, a budget format and a description of results that has to be presented to the assessor in a specific kind of language. A good idea written in Georgian often loses its sharpness precisely at the translation stage, so such texts are done by an experienced translator who, where needed, points out where the wording should be tightened. Once the project wins, the second stage begins - reports, documents proving expenditure and monitoring questionnaires, which have to be written in the same terms. On top of that come instructions for dairy processing and slaughterhouse equipment, the accompanying texts of veterinary medicines and, in the case of export, veterinary and phytosanitary certificates.

Seasonal work in Europe

Every spring dozens of people leave Adigeni for seasonal work in agriculture and construction - most often in Poland, Germany and the Baltic states. Their package usually looks like this: an invitation or the employer's declaration, an employment contract, a health certificate, a criminal record certificate and sometimes a document confirming qualifications. Some of these documents are in a foreign language, and the person leaving needs them in Georgian - to understand the conditions, working hours, pay and accommodation costs exactly before signing. Our advice does not change: read the Georgian version of the contract before you sign, because that is where the things that later become the subject of a dispute are written. In the other direction, Georgian certificates are translated into the language of the receiving country and apostilled where required. After returning, people often need certificates issued there - on length of service, tax refunds, insurance documents - in Georgian, or the other way round.

Family and study documents

A third of the orders from Adigeni are always everyday family matters, and this flow exists at any time of year. A school leaver needs a certificate and its supplement for a foreign university, a student needs a transcript for an exchange programme, a newly married couple needs a marriage certificate for an embassy, and a family member abroad needs a power of attorney so that someone here can act on their behalf. Medical documents are a separate group: test results and discharge summaries taken to a foreign doctor for consultation or treatment, and the other way round - reports on treatment received abroad that the local doctor needs in Georgian. Such documents often contain handwritten prescriptions, and deciphering them needs special attention. For all family matters we have one rule: the Latin spelling of the name is fixed from the valid passport and repeated in every document that follows.

People often ask how long a finished translation is kept. Completed work stays in our database, so if you need a second copy of the same document or a new certification, there is no need to translate it again - just call us and give the file number or the date. This is especially useful for those who submit the same certificates every season to different employers or to an embassy.

Languages in orders from Adigeni

Demand in Adigeni splits in two. For work, Polish and German lead, followed by Czech and Dutch. In technical and project work English dominates, while energy equipment often comes with Italian and Chinese. Turkish is the language of the neighbouring market and of materials, Russian of older documents and regional partners. As needed, we also work with French, Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian and Arabic.

How the process works

Price, deadlines and guarantees

Adigeni is served on the same terms as the capital - there is no surcharge for a mountain municipality; the price is by agreement and is set after we see the document. A certificate or one-page document with the bureau stamp is ready the same or the next day, an employment contract in two days, a notarized package for seasonal work in two to three days, a technical manual on a schedule agreed according to volume, a grant application in stages so that you can fill it in alongside, and a document with an apostille within the time the procedure takes. Cooperatives and companies that translate regularly have prices agreed in advance and one monthly settlement, which is more convenient for accounting. A business plan, a financial model and personal documents are equally confidential for us. Behind the bureau stands a specific responsible person - the sole trader Mariam Zumadze (ID 30601010853), so an official contract and invoice can be issued at any moment, which is especially useful for grant reporting. If an error on our side is confirmed, we correct it free of charge.

Frequently asked questions - translation in Adigeni

Translation bureau in the other cities of Samtskhe-Javakheti

Abastumani is Adigeni's neighbour, Akhaltsikhe and Vale are at the centre of the region, and Borjomi, Bakuriani and Tsaghveri lie in the gorge. Choose a city to see which documents we work on there.