A translation bureau for Surami - TARGMANEBI's service for a town that lies between Khashuri and the mountain pass and comes sharply to life in summer. Our clients here are mostly small businesses - bakeries, hotels, shops, farm producers - and private individuals who need personal papers. We have one rule for everyone: the order starts from your phone, we confirm the price and the deadline within working hours, the finished file comes to you by email, and the certified paper arrives by courier - the Khashuri route runs regularly.
Bakeries, food, labelling
Surami's roadside trade and local bakeries are the region's calling card. A small producer who wants to expand or get into shops needs one set of documents:
Product and label
- Ingredients, nutrition and allergen texts
- Storage conditions and best-before dates
- Producer and origin details
- Product description and a short story for the packaging
- Laboratory tests and analysis results
Safety and procedures
- Food safety system documentation
- Sanitary and hygiene procedures
- Staff instructions and log forms
- Supplier assessment and control records
- Inspection reports and recommendations
Trade
- Supply contracts with shops and distributors
- Invoices and commercial offers
- Manuals for equipment - ovens and baking lines
- Specifications for raw materials and additives
- Claims and correspondence with partners
Label text is a genre of its own: the mandatory information has to be exact, and space is strictly limited. So we prepare several versions of different lengths - the mandatory part stays unchanged in all of them, while the descriptive part shrinks or grows to fit the design. If the product is going abroad, we check the destination country's requirements in advance, because the list of mandatory statements varies and a single missing item stops the whole batch.
Fortress, road, tourists
Surami fortress and the main road running through the town create a steady tourist flow - many foreign travellers stop here on the way, and some come specially. So local services - hotels, family guesthouses, cafes, shops - need texts in their guests' languages: accommodation descriptions, menus, prices, house rules, a historical note on the fortress and the town, short routes in the surroundings. Such texts need no certification, but the style works directly on the business: a naturally written description and a clear menu make more guests stop. In the historical part we take care over the accuracy of facts - legend and historical record have to be kept apart, even when both are interesting.
Dachas, rentals, property
Surami's reputation as a summer resort led many people to rent out houses and created many dachas, some of whose owners now live abroad. That produces a separate group of documents: rental agreements, including bilingual ones when the tenant is a foreigner; powers of attorney issued abroad so that a relative can rent out or sell the house; inheritance documents; public registry extracts for a foreign bank or authority. In such cases the most frequent hold-up is the wording of the power of attorney - it has to state specifically what the representative is authorised to do. So we advise sending us the draft before it is signed; often adding a single phrase is enough to avoid having to do the document a second time.
Family papers and people abroad
A significant share of Surami families now work abroad - in Greece, Italy, Germany and Turkey - and that is where the second large share of our orders comes from. These are certificates for embassies and employers, employment contracts (we always recommend a Georgian version before signing), school documents for children, medical histories, and pension and archival records, which are often old and handwritten. Papers issued abroad - certificates, court decisions, employment record statements - are translated into Georgian for local authorities. In all such cases one thing decides success: the same spelling of the name on every page. So we ask clients to show us all the family's documents together - we base the Latin spelling on the valid passport and repeat it in every translation that follows.
Since the business here is seasonal, we have one piece of advice for local entrepreneurs: prepare your texts before summer begins. In June, when guests are already arriving, there is the least time and the most work; a menu, description and price list prepared in spring will carry you through the whole season. A text we have done once is kept in our base, so next year you will only need to make changes rather than place a new order.
Another frequent topic for small businesses is online sales: social media pages, delivery terms, ordering rules and answers to customers' questions. When the buyer is abroad or is a foreigner visiting the country, these texts also have to be written in their language - and briefly and clearly, because nobody reads long explanations on a screen. We handle such material separately and, if you wish, offer several short versions.
Languages in orders from Surami
In Surami Russian is the most frequent - guests, older documents and regional trade; English covers tourism texts and international documents. Turkish comes up in trade and transport, German, Italian and Greek in the papers of families living abroad, Polish and Czech in labour migration, and Ukrainian with guests and in family documents. Also available: French, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic and Chinese.
How to order
Get the text or paper to us
Send a picture to 501 113 200 or the document to info@targmanebi.ge; for a label or a menu, a text file is best, so we can work on the length.
Who it is for
A shop, a border crossing, a guest or an authority - that decides the style, the mandatory content and whether certification is needed.
Translation and checking
Food and equipment texts go to a specialist translator, tourism texts to a style-focused one; dates, weights and ingredients are checked separately.
Receiving it
The file as soon as it is finished, the paper by courier to Surami or Khashuri, at a place convenient for you.
Price, deadlines, guarantee
A client in Surami gets the same terms as a client in the capital - a small town changes nothing here, and the price is agreed after we see the document. A label text and a short description take two days, menus and hotel materials up to three, a supply contract two days. A food safety procedures package depends on its size, and an equipment manual on how many chapters are needed. A power of attorney or another personal paper with a notary is done in two days, and for an apostille the procedure sets the timeline. In the summer season, when guests arrive, we also take urgent orders and tell you so in advance. Your recipes, partners and prices are commercial information for us and are never passed to third parties; the same rule applies to the contents of personal documents. Behind the bureau stands Mariam Zumadze, registered as a sole trader (ID 30601010853) - so every payment is always recorded on an official document. An error on our side, once confirmed, is corrected free of charge.
Getting your products into shops and need a label? Want a hotel description and menu in your guests' languages? Received a power of attorney from abroad? Write to us from Surami - we will look at the text and reply today.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - translation in Surami
We make a product and need a label. What must it include?
Ingredients, allergens, weight or volume, storage conditions, best-before date and producer details - that is the basis. If the product is going abroad, we check the destination country's requirements separately. We prepare the text in several lengths so that it fits on the packaging.
Foreign guests stop at our place. Which languages should the menu and description be in?
To start with, English and Russian are quite enough; later we add the languages that appear most often among your guests. In a menu the key thing is explaining the dish rather than translating it literally - a foreigner has to understand what they are ordering.
I am renting my house to a foreigner. How should I draw up the contract?
We recommend a bilingual version - Georgian and the tenant's language side by side, with matching clauses. That way both parties know what they are agreeing to: the term, payment, the condition of the property, liability. The text is done once, and each new season only the details change.
We are writing a text about the fortress for guests. Should we include the legends?
Of course - they bring the text to life, but it has to be clear where the historical record ends and the legend begins. We keep that boundary in the translation, because for a foreign reader the difference matters.
We have imported an oven and the manual is in a foreign language.
We will translate it - usually the operation, cleaning and safety chapters are enough, plus the settings table. That keeps the cost down, and in practice this is exactly the part you need in daily work.
Does the courier come to Surami?
Yes, on the Khashuri route - we will tell you the exact day when you order. You receive the electronic version as soon as it is ready, and paper is needed only when the document has to be submitted officially.
Translation bureau in the towns around Surami
Khashuri and Agara are Surami's neighbours, Qareli, Gori and Kaspi lie to the east, and Borjomi and Tsaghveri to the south. Each has its own page.