7/17/2019 Tbilisi BEFORE & AFTER the flood of #June13 2015

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MAY 2015 JUNE 16 / 2015

CITY CENTRE BEFORE & AFTER #TBILISIFLOOD

This is what the yard and the entrance of the School of Tomorrow looked

like on a quiet day in May 2015. The School of Tomorrow is a privateschool located in Mziuri Park with about 300 pupils. The school termfinished the day before the disaster struck.

Photo by School of Tomorrow.

SCHOOL OF TOMORROW: GIVING NEW LIFE TO THESCHOOL AFTER THE FLOOD

The flood waters reached a height that submerged the building, forever

rendering it unusable as a school. Alumni, pupils, parents, teachers andvolunteers united to help.

Photo by N.Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

SCHOOL OF TOMORROW: GIVING NEW LIFE TO THESCHOOL AFTER THE FLOOD

This part of Tbilisi Zoo with coin-operated attractions was a popular placefor the Zoo’s youngest visitors and their parents.

Photo by Tbilisi Zoo.

TBILISI ZOO: ATTRACTIONS FOR THE YOUNGESTVISITORS

This dinosaur is still smiling and playing his guitar despite beingsurrounded by debris at Tbilisi Zoo.

Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

TBILISI ZOO: ATTRACTIONS FOR THE YOUNGESTVISITORS

This is how the lower part of Tbilisi Zoo, formerly home to monkeys, lionsand tigers, looked before the flood. It was completely destroyed and as aresult, most animals that lived in that part of the Zoo died.

  Photo by Tbilisi Zoo.

TBILISI ZOO: ENCLOSURES IN THE LOWER PART SUFFERMOST DAMAGE

That is how enclosures looked two days after the disaster. While no mon-keys or tigers survived, many did. Those that survived included 16 carni-vores, 98 reptiles, 469 fish, 129 ungulates, 7 primates and 144 birds. 

Photo by Nino Alavidze. Agenda.ge.

TBILISI ZOO: ENCLOSURES OF THE LOWER PART SUFFERMOST DAMAGE

This yellow carousel of Tbilisi Zoo can be seen in the background in photocoverage of the June 1 Children’s Day celebration.

  Photo from Tbilisi Zoo archives.

TBILISI ZOO: SYMBOL OF DISASTER

In June 2015 the photo of this carousel circulated on pages of newspapersall over the world as the symbol of Tbilisi Flood disaster.

Photo by Nino Alavidze/ Agenda.ge.

TBILISI ZOO: SYMBOL OF DISASTER

This is what the main entrance of Tbilisi Zoo, from Heroes Square in Tbili-si, looked like before the disaster. It was overcrowded on sunny days,weekends and school holidays.

Photo from Tbilisi Zoo archives.

TBILISI ZOO: MAIN ENTRANCE

The Zoo’s main entrance after the flood on June 13. Officials announced anew facility would be built for the surviving animals outside of Tbilisi in thefuture but until then those that survived now shared enclosures in theupper section of the Zoo.

Photo by Nino Alavidze. Agenda.ge.

TBILISI ZOO: MAIN ENTRANCE

Tbilisi Zoo Administration was proud to announce in March 2014 thatconstruction of the new home for its new inhabitants – a cute family ofpenguins – had finished.  Photo from Tbilisi Zoo archives.

TBILISI ZOO: PENGUINS POOL

Only seven penguins managed to survive the deadly flood of June 13,2015.

Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

TBILISI ZOO: PENGUINS POOL

Stencil art on the wall of an old Tbilisi Zoo building was noticeable from theNew Road, which was also destroyed in the disaster. In 2014 this wallcaught our photographer’s eye as she took photos of street art in centralTbilisi.

Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

TBILISI ZOO: STENCIL FROM THE ROAD

In this photo, taken at the same place on June 15, 2015, you can clearly seehow high the water level of the Vere River was two days after the flood. Theplace which used to be the New Highway is completely covered with water.

Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge

TBILISI ZOO: STENCIL FROM THE ROAD

In summer 2010 our photographer Nino Alavidze was shooting theconstruction of the New Road in Tbilisi centre. The enclosures, wherebears played, can be clearly seen in the picture.

Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

NEW HIGHWAY

The lower part of Tbilisi Zoo was completely destroyed and as a result,most animals that lived in that part of the Zoo died but three bears managedto survive.

Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

NEW HIGHWAY

The ferris wheel was another eye catching attraction of Tbilisi Zoo and itcould be seen from the entire neighbourhood. Agenda.ge photographerNino Alavidze shot this image while the construction of the New Highwaywas going on in 2010.  Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

TBILISI ZOO: FERRIS WHEEL

The same place shot after the Tbilisi flood of June 13, 2015. If you wouldlike to help Tbilisi recover from this severe disaster, follow this link.

  Photo by Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

TBILISI FLOOD: HOW TO DONATE

Photographer Nino shot this part of the new road in 2010 as workhappened to fix the construction of the New Highway connecting HeroesSquare with Vake district. In the right corner you can see the lower part ofTbilisi Zoo, which before the flood was the home of bears and white lions.

  Photo by N.Alavidze/Agenda.ge. 

PHOTOS BY NINO ALAVIDZE / DESIGN BY MARIAM CHALAURI / CAPTIONS BY GENEVIEVE HELLIWELL

JUNE 2015, AGENDA.GE 

The same place after the disaster. If you want to help Tbilisi Zoo survivorsyou can join the world donation campaign. 

Photo by N.Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

TBILISI ZOO: HOW TO DONATECONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW HIGHWAY

Children play football in the School of Tomorrow yard at the start of the2014-2015 academic year. The school term finished the day before thedisaster struck.

Photo by School of Tomorrow.

SCHOOL OF TOMORROW: SCHOOL TERM FINISHED THEDAY BEFORE THE DISASTER

“With great sadness, we were forced to come to grips with the fact that ourbeloved school and all it contained have been lost to nature,” said school

director Ryan Arner, while starting a campaign to raise money to rebuild theschool.  Photo by N.Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

SCHOOL OF TOMORROW: SCHOOL TERM FINISHED THEDAY BEFORE THE DISASTER

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SEPT 2014 JUNE 19 / 2015

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