It was founded in 1922 by Orthodox Udis from the city of Vartashen (modern Oğuz, Azerbaijan), who came to Georgia in search of refuge from Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict of 1918-1920s.

The first group of settlers arrived in 1922 and chose a place for settlement, in 1924 further 22 families settled there.

[3] Living in a Georgian environment, the Zinobiani Udis underwent significant assimilation.

After the collapse of the USSR, the contacts of the Zinobiani with the Udi from Azerbaijan decreased and the process of assimilation intensified, often ended up with mixed Udi-Georgian marriages.

In recent years, the model of forming a surname by adding the suffix -g'aria (from Udi: g'ar, lit.