The first railway station of Tiflis was built in 1872, shortly after the Caucasian Railway began to link the region’s major cities – Poti, Baku, Tiflis, and Kutaisi.
The station’s style was eclectic, with elements of High Classicism, typical of representative public buildings of the late XIX century.
The building was constructed under the supervision of Pavel Petrovich Melnikov (1804–1880), an architect and railway engineer.
At the beginning of the XX century, the station was modernized both technically and architecturally: the side wings of the building were extended, and the ticket halls were rebuilt.
Furthermore, electric lighting appeared in the station, along with the first electric switch drives and semaphores in the Caucasus.
The station became one of the main transportation hubs of the entire Russian Empire; up to 26 trains departed daily from the Tiflis station, including express routes.
Unfortunately, the station building was demolished in the 1950s during the modernization of the city’s railway lines.