The research of the issues of ancient iron metallurgy of Colchis is one of the most important issues in the study of ancient history. Today it is recognized that the Georgian tribes have the greatest contribution to the world of iron metallurgy. Naturally, the interest in this issue is due to the great importance that iron has played in the life of ancient societies and in the advancement of mankind. It is noteworthy that still the ancient eastern and the ancient Greek authors, who considered Chalybes and Tubals/Tabals living in North Anatolia (South Black Sea coast) to be the ancient producers of iron, were interested in the issues of ancient iron production. According to Georgian scholars, the Chalybes ethnically belonged to the Chan branch of the western Georgian tribes and inhabited the south-eastern Black Sea coast. Researches conducted in Georgia in recent decades have shown that Kartvelian tribes have made a significant contribution to the formation of Caucasian cultures and, to some extent, have played a leading role in the emergence and development of this or that field. Taking into account the materials obtained by Georgian specialists and the available written sources, the contours of scientific evidence are outlined today that the tribes living in the foothill zone of eastern and southeastern Black Sea region, on the territory of historic Colchis, have already owned iron making technology since the boundary of 2nd -1st millennia BC and were also very successful in this field. The study of the problems of Colchian ferrous metallurgy begins in the 60-ies of the last century by the Batumi Niko Berdzenishvili ScientificResearch Institute (Grdzelishvili I., Khakhutaishvili D.). The working principle of the workshops fixed in the territory of Colchis, chronology, construction of smelting furnaces, raw material base of iron production, etc., were established. Recently, the Georgian-British International Archaeological Expedition has continued to work in this direction on the territory of historic Colchis and with the use of modern methods once more clarified the issue of dating the first stage of ancient iron production in Colchis and related problems