Stepantsminda (Kazbegi) Travel Guide Stepantsminda — officially renamed from Kazbegi in 2006 but still called Kazbegi by everyone who lives there — is the mountain town at 1,740 metres in the north of Georgia, 11 kilometres from the Russian border, 160 kilometres from Tbilisi on the Georgian Military Highway, and at the base of Mount Kazbek whose 5,054-metre volcanic summit is one of the most sacred peaks in the entire Caucasus. This is your complete 2026 guide: the Gergeti Trinity Church hike in full detail, the Juta Valley and Chaukhi massif traverse, the Truso Valley mineral springs circuit, the Gergeti Glacier approach, the best hotels and guesthouses from luxury to…