Gori Georgian: გორი is a city in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia. It is most famous or infamous for being the birthplace of Joseph Vissarionovich Jughashvili, better known as Stalin. Today, surprisingly, it does not look much different from when Stalin ruled the USSR. Gori is also located a short drive from Uplistsikhe, an ancient Silk Road cave city and former regional center of pagan worship.
The name Gori may look and sound like the plural form of the Russian word for mountain горы, GO-ry, but the name of Gori, incidentally meaning hill singular in Georgian, is much older than the first Russian contact with the Georgian kingdoms in 1500s.
