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10 Apsars Hero-town Tkuarchal
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Abkhazia |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a polished mirror field dominated by a relief depiction of Mount Khodzhal in the background, with the medal «Hero of Abkhazia» appearing at right and a power transmission pylon at left — emblematic of the mining and energy heritage of Tkuarchal. The central field bears Abkhaz-language inscriptions «АҚАЛАҚЬ-ФЫРХАҴА ТҞӘАРЧАЛ» (Hero-town Tkuarchal) along with the names of the town's districts: Akarmara, Dzhantou, and Kuazan. In the lower portion, a broad decorative band carries a colour-rendered town emblem and the year of the town's foundation, «1942». The medal and emblem are rendered in polychrome pad-printing enhanced with selective gold-plating, while a beaded border encircles the entire design. |
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Tkuarchal — spelled Tkvarcheli in Georgian — was the site of one of the most prolonged sieges of the Georgian-Abkhaz war. From 1992 to 1993, the town's largely Armenian and Russian civilian population was blockaded by Georgian National Guard forces for nearly fourteen months. A humanitarian airlift organized through Russian military channels was the primary lifeline; without it, casualties from starvation and cold would have been catastrophic. The town's coal mines, which had powered much of the Soviet-era Transcaucasian economy, sat idle throughout.
Abkhazia's "Hero-town" coin series draws direct parallel to the Soviet-era Hero City designations — a deliberate framing of Abkhaz national memory around the 1992–93 war.