A translation bureau in Tkibuli - TARGMANEBI's service for a town where a person's health and a family's future often stand behind the paperwork. After accidents in Tkibuli's pits, families have to pursue insurance, compensation and court cases, and those cases frequently cross borders: the insurer is international, the expert examination was carried out abroad, a family member is acting from Europe. Working with such documents demands technical precision and human tact at once - we try to hold both.
Tkibuli's second face is more open: the Nakerala pass, the Shaori reservoir and lake, the town's tea history and the new guest houses that host foreigners heading towards Racha. The third is ordinary Imeretian life: family members in Europe, students in Kutaisi, pensioners with Soviet record books. One scheme covers all three - a photo from Tkibuli, translation and certification in Tbilisi, paper back by courier.
Accident, insurance, compensation - the chain of documents
After an accident in a mine or a plant, a whole chain of documents gathers around the injured person and the family, and where the insurer, the expert or the court is foreign, that chain is translated in full - one missing link stops the case.
Accident documents
- The accident report (form and investigation material)
- Labour inspectorate or special commission findings
- Witness statements and records
- Employment contract and the safety briefing log
- Captions to photographs and diagrams
Medical and expert
- Emergency and inpatient discharge summaries
- Medical expert opinion on loss of working capacity
- Disability certificate and rehabilitation plan
- Death certificate and medical certificate of cause
- Foreign clinic report, where treatment was abroad
Insurance and court
- Insurance policy and conditions in Georgian
- Insurance claim and correspondence with the company
- Court claim, judgment and enforcement writ
- Inheritance and guardianship documents for the family
- Power of attorney from a family member abroad
One principle governs translation in such cases: nothing is interpreted. The time, the place, the section, the description of the injury and the cause recorded in the report are carried across in exactly the words the original uses - the insurance company and the court build their decisions on those very formulations. The medical part goes to a medical-profile translator and the legal part to a legal one, with a single editor checking both so that names, dates and numbers agree across the whole package.
Miners and power workers abroad
Miners, electricians and technicians from Tkibuli go, like those from Chiatura, to mines and energy companies in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. For that the qualification documents are translated - the vocational diploma, the mine safety certificate, permits, a service certificate with a description of the work, medical and criminal record certificates - in the employer's language, with an apostille and notarization. Underground service and hazardous-conditions entries matter particularly here: in European mines they determine both wages and pension rights, so in translation those entries are carried across in full and in the receiving country's terminology.
Shaori, Nakerala and tourism
The Shaori reservoir, the Nakerala pass and Tkibuli's lake have become a stopping place for foreign travellers heading towards Racha, while Tkibuli's old tea factories and plantations attract industrial heritage tours. Local guest houses, cafes and guides need, in English and Russian, hotel descriptions for booking platforms, conditions for fishing and boat hire on the lake, route texts, menus and historical texts about tea and coal. Such material is prepared quickly and without certification.
Tkibuli's energy and mining enterprises have a corporate flow of their own: technical documentation for equipment, safety instructions for workers in Georgian, audit reports to international standards, contracts with foreign suppliers. Such text goes to a mining and technical translator, a terminology base is created for the enterprise, and the safety instruction is written in the language of the shop floor - so that it is understood by the worker from the outset rather than read later in a report.
Family papers from Tkibuli
Fortunately Tkibuli's families more often need peaceful documents: a certificate for an embassy, a school certificate and transcript for a university in Kutaisi or abroad, a power of attorney from a child in Europe to sell a house or a car, a foreign salary certificate for the bank, a Soviet work record book with pit stamps for the pension agency - often with an underground service entry that is deciphered separately. The difficulty of an insurance case does not extend to these papers; everything else - the number, the manager, the courier - is the same.
Languages in orders from Tkibuli
Because of insurance and expert documents, English comes first in Tkibuli, with Russian for old record books and archival certificates, and Polish, Czech and German for miners' employment. On family documents Italian, Greek and Spanish appear, and for tourism English and Ukrainian. Turkish, French, Arabic, Chinese and Dutch are rare from Tkibuli and mostly tied to correspondence with international insurers.
How a case runs from Tkibuli
The whole folder at once
In an insurance or court case send photos of every document together - the report, the opinion, the policy, the correspondence - by WhatsApp or by email to info@targmanebi.ge. That way we see the whole picture and nothing is left out.
Who is asking and by when
The insurance company, the court, an embassy or an employer - and their deadline. That decides the form of certification and the queue; court deadlines take priority.
The package price and the work
You receive the sum and the day for the whole package in one message. The medical and legal parts go to translators of those profiles, and a single editor compares the whole package against itself.
Paper in Tkibuli
You receive the file at once. The certified package comes to Tkibuli by courier in one visit; originals travel only for an apostille and come back in the same envelope.
Price, confidentiality, responsibility
A client in Tkibuli pays no more than one in Tbilisi; in an insurance package the legal and medical pages cost more than a certificate, but ordering the whole case together costs noticeably less than translating the documents one by one - the courier is paid for once, and so is the apostille visit. The case sets the deadlines: a report and an opinion in one to two days, a full package with notarization within a week, and where a court deadline applies, in as many days as the court has left. The documents of an accident case are a family's pain rather than information: only the two people working on the order see them, and they are never used in any form. Responsibility for such cases is taken by TARGMANEBI's owner, the lawyer Mariam Zumadze (sole trader, ID 30601010853) - a confirmed inaccuracy is corrected free of charge and without delay.
An insurance claim, an expert opinion, a court judgment or a miner's qualification document - send us the photo from Tkibuli. We will assess the whole package in one go and set the deadline by the case.
Call: 501 113 200Frequently asked questions - translation in Tkibuli
An accident report in English for an international insurer - does it need a notary?
International insurers are normally satisfied with the bureau stamp, while a court requires the notarial form. When a case is being prepared for both at once we choose the notarized version from the outset, so that one document is not certified twice. The report's formulations are carried across word for word, without interpretation.
How long for an expert opinion on loss of working capacity for a foreign clinic?
The opinion goes to a medical translator and is normally ready on the third working day - the percentage of lost working capacity, the international diagnosis codes and the test values are checked against the original separately. At the clinic's request the discharge summary and the tests are translated by the same person, so that the terminology does not drift.
The family member conducting the case is in Germany. Can they be the client?
Yes - ordering, paying and receiving the files can all happen from Germany, while the paper original is handed to another family member in Tkibuli or Tbilisi. If they are a representative in the case, we add the translation of their power of attorney to the same package.
How will underground service be counted in a Polish mine? The record book is in Russian.
We translate the record book into Georgian and then into Polish as one package, carrying the underground work and hazardous-conditions entries across in full and in the terms of the Polish classifier. A service certificate from the pit, if you have one, is translated in the same terminology - the employer sees both together.
I have opened a guest house at Shaori. How long for the text in two languages for a booking platform?
Two to three working days, in English and Russian from one source, so that prices and conditions read identically in both. Fishing and boat rules are prepared as a separate sheet. No certification is needed.
Will the courier come to Tkibuli's upper districts?
To any district of Tkibuli, on an agreed day - in the centre that is simple, and for the upper districts we agree the route separately. Most documents in an insurance case are translated from photos and never leave the house; the courier takes an original only for an apostille and returns it in a sealed envelope.
Translation bureau in the other cities of Imereti
Chiatura and Sachkhere share Tkibuli's mining profile, while the rest of Imereti has industry, a spa and logistics. Each town has its own page with the local accents.