The Great Liakhvi ( Didi Liakhvi , , Styr Lewakhi) is a river in central Georgia, which rises on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, in the disputed Georgian territory of South Ossetia, primarily in the Tskhinvali Raion, and flows into the Kura (Mtkvari). It is long, and has a drainage basin of .Большая Лиахви, Great Soviet Encyclopedia The river runs from the Georgian-Russian border down to Gori, a city in Shida Kartli. The cities of Tskhinvali and Gori lie along the banks of the Great Liakhvi. The river is mainly fed by the melting snows and glacier runoff of the Caucasus Mountains as well as by underground water sources. The Liakhvi reaches its highest water volume in the spring and summer while the lowest volume is recorded in the winter, when some segments of the river freeze over.
The Little Liakhvi is a left-bank tributary.
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