History of the Faculty of Mining and Geology

The history of the faculty begins on January 16, 1922, when the Polytechnic Faculty was opened based on the decision of the Board of Professors of Tbilisi University.

Initially, there were three departments at the polytechnic faculty: construction, mechanical and three-dimensional. The mining department had specialties - mining (operational), metallurgical and chemical-technological.

On October 1, 1928, by the decision of the Georgian government, the State Polytechnic Institute of Georgia was opened on the basis of the Polytechnic Faculty of Tbilisi University, which at the beginning had the following faculties: I. Faculty of Construction, II. Mechanical Faculty, III. Faculty of Mining and Chemistry. Grigol Tsulukidze was appointed as the Dean of the Mining Faculty.

As a result of the reorganization of Georgian higher education institutions in 1930, six institutes were created on the basis of the Polytechnic Institute of Georgia. In 1932, the Transcaucasian Mining and Chemical Institute was established. In 1933, the mining-chemical, engineering-construction and energy institutes were united under the name of the Transcaucasian Industrial Institute.

In 1947, the institute was given the name of Polytechnic Institute of Georgia. The mining faculty was among the 6 faculties in the institute at that time.

In 1972, when the 50th anniversary of the Polytechnic Institute of Georgia was celebrated, 28 faculties were functioning in the institute, including: the mining faculty, where teaching was carried out in six specialties, and the geological faculty was taught in four specialties.

The following worked as deans of the Mining Faculty at different times: R. Jikia, K. Gabunia, G. Chkheidze, G. Kartvelishvili, b. Abesadze, N. Tkemaladze, D. Shervashidze, A. Laliev, G. Japaridze.

In 1955, the faculty was named as mining-geological. From 1971 to 1992, the mining and geological faculties existed separately, and in 1992 they were united again. During this period, the deans of the Faculty of Mining were D. Bezhashvili, B. Demetradze, G. Butskhrikidze; Geological Faculty - G. Japaridze, V. Chumburidze, T. Lortkipanidze, Z. Mgeladze. Z. Mgeladze was elected as the dean of the United Mining and Geological Faculty. Currently, the dean of the faculty is A. Abshilava.

Studies at the faculty flow at all three levels of education (bachelor's, master's, doctoral), as well as professional educational programs.