A translation bureau for Bolnisi - TARGMANEBI's service for a town less than an hour from Tbilisi, where our orders divide almost evenly between businesses and private individuals. Companies need technical, commercial and project texts; families need certificates, diplomas, powers of attorney and academic papers. In both cases the process is equally remote: you send a photo or a file, you get the price and the deadline within working hours, the finished document comes by email, and the certified version by courier, which comes into Bolnisi regularly.
The German trace and international projects
Bolnisi's German past is not merely a historical footnote today - it continues in concrete, ongoing projects: twin-town relations, the restoration of historic buildings, museums and exhibitions, exchange programmes, research into local history. Such cooperation generates texts of its own: memoranda and agreements of understanding, grant applications and reports, minutes of working meetings, excursion and exhibition material, and translations of historical documents from German. Old German records are a challenge in themselves: they are often in old typefaces and handwriting, so we name the timing for such material only after seeing it. In heritage projects we check the names of sites separately, so that historical and present-day designations are not confused.
Municipal cooperation
- Twin-town agreements and correspondence
- Descriptions and budgets of joint projects
- Delegation visit programmes and information material
- Official greetings and press releases
- Reports for donors and partners
Heritage and culture
- Project documentation for building restoration
- Museum exhibition texts and labels
- Translation of historical research and articles
- Old German records and archival material
- Tourist routes and guide material
Education and exchange
- Agreements between schools and universities
- Pupils' and students' documents
- Parental consents and medical certificates
- Scholarship and programme applications
- Reference letters and character references
Wine, agriculture, export
The Bolnisi zone holds vineyards, family cellars and farms whose produce goes abroad more and more often. The texts needed for export differ sharply from one another. On one side the official documents - laboratory analyses, certificates, customs and transport papers, supply contracts. On the other the marketing texts - the label, the back label, the cellar's story, the tasting notes, the presentation for an importer. In the official part accuracy decides; in the marketing part, style - and those are two different skills. For a label we take account of the receiving country's mandatory statements and prepare several versions of the text at different lengths so that it fits the design. Tasting language is carried across in the terminology that professionals in that particular market actually use.
The mining sector and its contractors
Mining is a significant part of the economy in the Bolnisi municipality, and a whole network of service companies stands around it - construction, transport, equipment servicing, laboratories. In this sector translation often concerns safety: equipment operating manuals, method statements, risk assessment documents, briefing material, incident reports, environmental monitoring protocols. The commercial side is added to that - tender proposals, subcontractor agreements, documents for buying and leasing machinery, insurance conditions. Such texts are frequently prepared bilingually, when the parties work in different languages. Our rule here is strict: technical and safety terms are fixed once in the terminology base and then repeated unchanged in every document, because two different names for one procedure create confusion on site.
Everyday papers for Bolnisi residents
Beyond business and projects there are plenty of ordinary, human orders in Bolnisi. Someone going to work in Germany needs a Georgian version of the employment contract before signing; a family moving a child to a foreign school is preparing school documents; an older person is gathering certificates of service worked abroad; someone is settling an inheritance with a relative in another country. Such documents are normally done quickly - one to three days - and two things matter for them: the right spelling and the right form of certification. That is why we always ask the client who the document will be submitted to: one authority accepts the same certificate with a simple certified translation, another asks for an apostille too. That one question often saves several days and an unnecessary expense.
We have one practical piece of advice for Bolnisi residents about collecting documents: if you know that you will need several papers in the coming months - for a school, an embassy and a bank, say - it is better to gather them and send them as one order. That way the spelling of names is settled at once, the courier comes only once, and the cost is lower than with three separate approaches. Some certificates have a validity period, so we agree the dates in advance, to make sure the document is still valid at the moment of submission.
Languages in orders from Bolnisi
In Bolnisi German is the language of historical and current ties, and appears here more often than in other regions. English is the standard for technical, tender and export documentation, Russian for regional trade and older papers, Turkish for construction and trading partners. In wine export, Chinese, Polish, Czech and French are frequent, along with Italian and Spanish. Ukrainian, Greek, Dutch and Arabic are available too.
The process from Bolnisi
Send us the material
A photo by WhatsApp to 501 113 200 or a file to info@targmanebi.ge. An old handwritten document is best photographed in good light, with the whole page in frame.
Destination and form
Tell us who you will submit it to - a partner, an authority or a donor; that decides the style and whether a notary or an apostille is required.
Translation, editing, terminology base
A specialist translator does the work, and the terms are fixed once and reused in later orders - so that all your documents speak one language.
Delivery
The electronic version at once, certified paper by courier to Bolnisi or from the Tbilisi office.
Price, turnaround and principles
The price for Bolnisi is identical to the Tbilisi tariff. A certificate or a one-page document is done the same day, a notarized certificate or diploma in two days, a label and presentation set in two to three, a bilingual export contract in three, technical and safety documentation by volume with delivery in parts, a grant package to an agreed schedule, and an apostille on the timing of the procedure. With old handwritten material we name the timing after seeing the photo, because the difficulty of deciphering is not visible in advance. Commercial and personal information stays closed with us, and with projects and companies we sign a separate agreement where needed. The bureau's legal form is the sole trader Mariam Zumadze (ID 30601010853) - a lawyer, for whom the language of contracts and official correspondence is a professional field. If an error of ours is confirmed, the correction is free.
Running a project with German partners? Need a wine label and a presentation for an importer? Does the safety instruction on site have to exist in two languages? Write to us from Bolnisi - we will look at the document and confirm the turnaround the same day.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - translation in Bolnisi
We have a cooperation agreement with a German town to prepare. Will you make it bilingual?
Yes - Georgian and German text in one document, with full correspondence between the clauses, so that at signature both sides are agreeing to the same obligations. We prepare official correspondence and visit programmes in the same style.
I have an old German record from my family history. Can you read it?
Send us a photo - we work with material in old typefaces and handwriting, though we name the timing and the price only after seeing it. We mark unclear passages with a note and never guess, which matters particularly in genealogical research.
What should I take into account for a wine label?
The receiving country's mandatory statements - volume, alcohol, allergens, producer and, in some places, warnings. We write that part in the standard wording and offer the descriptive part at several lengths, so that the designer can choose.
Foreign specialists are working on our site. We need the safety instruction in their language.
That is the right approach and often a legal requirement too. We translate briefing material, risk assessments and warnings into their language, and fix the terms once so that they are identical in every document.
We need tender documentation urgently. Is that possible?
Yes, we work on an urgent regime - where necessary with several translators at once working from one shared terminology base, and an editor checking the whole package at the end. Tell us the tender deadline and we will fit the schedule to it.
Do I have to travel from Bolnisi to have a personal document translated?
No - you send the photo, we translate and notarize, and the courier brings the document to Bolnisi. The original is needed only for an apostille, and even then the courier works in both directions.
Translation bureau in the other cities of Kvemo Kartli
Kazreti, Marneuli and Dmanisi are close to Bolnisi, with Rustavi, Gardabani, Tetritskaro and Tsalka a little further away. Choose the town for your document.