A translation bureau in Kharagauli - TARGMANEBI's service for a municipality where an international infrastructure project came straight into the villages' back yards. Plots, houses and orchards inside the highway corridor go through an acquisition procedure, and the contracts, valuation reports and agreements often exist in an English or Chinese version alongside the Georgian one. Local people work for the contractors on bilingual employment contracts, and local businesses serve the construction - with invoices that end up in Chinese accounting.
Beside the construction, Kharagauli has a second and longer-standing profile - the national park, the walking trails, the guest houses and the foreign hikers who enter the park from the Kharagauli side. The third is ordinary Imeretian life: families in Europe, students in Kutaisi, pensioners with Soviet record books. Every flow comes in on one number and goes back to Kharagauli on one courier.
The highway and the land - compensation documents
When a plot or a house falls inside the project corridor, the owner is given a package of documents and needs one more to sign. If any of them also exists in a foreign language, the two versions have to match - and the owner should know that before signing:
What you receive from the project
- Notice of acquisition or easement
- Property valuation report and compensation calculation
- Draft contract in Georgian and often in English
- Resettlement or temporary use conditions
- Description of the grievance procedure
What we check
- A clause-by-clause comparison of both versions - area, sum, term, liability
- Cadastral codes and addresses, digit by digit
- The list of trees, structures and plantings in the valuation report
- Terms: acquisition, easement, temporary use, compensation
- Completeness of signatures, dates and annexes
What you may need in addition
- Power of attorney in Georgian from a co-owner abroad
- Inheritance documents, where the plot is not formally registered
- A complaint or letter to the project's grievance mechanism, in English
- Certificates for the bank on receiving the compensation
- Purchase of a new plot or house in case of resettlement
Comparative checking of a bilingual contract is our most requested service in Kharagauli: the owner sends both versions, the translator compares them clause by clause and lists any differences in writing. That costs less than a full translation and answers, before signature, the question every owner has: "does the English say the same thing?" If a brother abroad has to give a power of attorney so that one person can sign, we translate it in the same package.
Chinese contractors - technical and employment documents
Tunnel and bridge construction runs to Chinese engineering standards, and the documentation often begins in Chinese, continues in English and has to end in Georgian - for the supervisor, the city hall, the local subcontractor and the worker. We translate technical specifications, safety instructions for workers into Georgian, subcontractor agreements, invoices and acceptance certificates for submission to Chinese accounting, local workers' employment contracts in a bilingual format, and, in the event of an incident or a dispute, the reports and the correspondence. Chinese and English technical text goes to translators of the right profile, with units and standard numbers checked separately.
The construction brings local supply with it - Kharagauli's aggregate quarries, transport, catering and accommodation for the workers. A local business serving a Chinese contractor writes its invoices and acceptance certificates in English or Chinese and reads the contractor's instructions and requirements in Georgian. We handle that correspondence regularly, from templates, so that each new invoice is ready within hours.
The national park and ecotourism
The Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park is one of the largest protected areas in the Caucasus, and thousands of foreign hikers enter it from the Kharagauli side every year, through the villages of Marelisi, Zotiketi and Nunisi. Local guest houses, guides and horse hirers need trail descriptions and multi-day route texts, safety rules and shelter conditions, hotel descriptions for booking platforms, menus and contracts with tour operators - in English, German and Polish, the hikers' main languages. Nobody needs a stamp or a notary here; what matters is that the names of trails, peaks and villages are written identically in every piece of material, or a hiker cannot match the map to the description.
Kharagauli families
The highway has changed the ordinary paperwork of Kharagauli's families too: a power of attorney from a child in Europe is now most often needed here precisely to sign a compensation contract, and a co-owner's renunciation from abroad to register a plot. The rest is as everywhere - a certificate for an embassy, a school certificate for Kutaisi, a grandmother's work record book for a pension, a foreign salary certificate for the bank - and it comes back together with the highway documents, on one courier run.
Languages in orders from Kharagauli
The highway construction has made Kharagauli one of the rare Georgian municipalities where Chinese is an everyday working language, alongside English. English is the language of contracts, supervision and park visitors, German and Polish of hikers and employment in Europe, Russian of older documents and part of the tourism. Italian, Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, French, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch and Czech are tied to family documents and individual visitors.
The process - from a land case to a trail description
Both versions, if they exist
Send the Georgian and the English (or Chinese) version of the contract together - as files or photos, by WhatsApp or by email to info@targmanebi.ge. A comparison is only possible with both.
Before signing or for an authority
Tell us whether you need it to understand or to submit - in the first case an information translation or a comparison is enough, in the second notarization. That changes the price two or three times over.
Specialist translation
A technical text goes to a technical translator, a contract to a legal one, a Chinese document to a Chinese-direction translator; cadastral codes, areas and sums are checked separately with the editor.
Paper in Kharagauli
You receive the file at once; the certified original comes by courier to Kharagauli or to a village, according to the route. Anyone travelling to Tbilisi anyway collects it at the office - through Rikoti that is an hour and a half.
Price and turnaround
There is no surcharge for ordering from Kharagauli. In land cases what is needed most often is a comparative check or an information translation, which costs far less than a full certified translation; technical and Chinese documentation costs more per page than an official document but rarely needs certification. Timing: a bilingual contract comparison in one to two days, a certificate with notarization in two to three, a technical specification by volume. Contractors and subcontractors have a terminology base, a monthly invoice and a confidentiality undertaking; a landowner's compensation sum and family circumstances are known only to those working on the order. The comparison of a bilingual contract is read by the bureau's owner herself - Mariam Zumadze, sole trader (ID 30601010853), who understands easement and acquisition through a legal education rather than a dictionary; a confirmed inaccuracy is corrected free of charge.
Has your plot ended up in the highway corridor and been given to you in English as well? Taking a job with a Chinese company? Need a trail description for the park's visitors? Send us the documents from Kharagauli - before you sign, we will tell you what both versions say.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - translation in Kharagauli
I was given the acquisition contract in Georgian and in English. Do I have to translate it?
Not translate - compare. You understand the Georgian version, and checking the English before signature is worth it: the translator compares both clause by clause and lists any differences in writing. That costs several times less than a full translation and is ready in one to two days.
The Chinese company's contract is in English and I do not fully understand it. What do I do before signing?
We will translate the text for information, without certification - in one to two days, quickly and cheaply - so that you know exactly what the clauses on pay, working time, safety and dismissal say. By law the contract should also exist in a language you understand, and you can ask for that.
The plot is in my late father's name and my brother is in Germany. What gets translated for the compensation?
The inheritance has to be registered first - for that, your brother's renunciation or a power of attorney before a German notary, with an apostille and a Georgian translation. Then the compensation contract. We prepare the documents for both stages as one package, so that the names and the cadastral code are written identically throughout.
How long for a Chinese technical drawing and manual for Georgian engineers?
By volume - a ten-page manual normally in a week, with a Chinese-direction technical translator; drawing labels translate faster as a separate list. Units and standard numbers stay unchanged and are checked separately.
I need a multi-day park trail description in English and German. Can that be done together?
In one order, from one Georgian source - distances, altitudes and the names of shelters and villages are written identically in both languages. For German hikers the difficulty grades are carried across in the Alpine clubs' system, which they recognise.
Will the courier come as far as Marelisi or Zotiketi?
To the centre of Kharagauli always, on an agreed day; to the mountain villages by agreement on the route and an additional sum. Many clients collect the original in Kharagauli, at the station, when they come down from the village anyway.
Translation bureau in the other cities of Imereti
Kharagauli shares its construction profile with Zestaponi and Shorapani - the Rikoti road concerns all three - while the rest of Imereti has accents of its own. Choose your city.