 The newly-established settlement was named after the Viceroy of the Caucasus Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov.In 1846, it was included in the Borchali uyezd of Tiflis Governorate.In 1935, during the Soviet rule, the settlement was renamed "Kalinino" after the Russian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Mikhail Kalinin and was called.