Shafranovo, also Shafranovi, is a village of Georgia, in Gagra Municipality of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, in the community of Kheivani.
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The village lies in the foothills of Abkhazia, between the rivers Lapsta and Mehadiri, 380 metres above sea level; it is 29 kilometres from Gagra.
The village of Khsyrkhu was renamed Shafranovo at the end of the nineteenth century, when a settlement of Russian colonists was founded here; in 1930 it belonged to the community of Pilenkovo, in 1956 it was named Tsinevala, and afterwards the name Shafranovo was given back to it. By a decree of 4 December 1992 the Republic of Abkhazia named the village Khsyrkhu once more; under the law of Georgia the village remains Shafranovo.
At the census of 1989 the village had 93 inhabitants.