SOVIET PAPER DETAILS GEORGIAN FLOOD DAMAGE Floods and avalanches killed 110 people and caused around 350 mln roubles worth of damage in the southern Soviet republic of Georgia earlier this year, the government daily Izvestia said. Some 80,000 hectares of agricultural land and gardens had been inundated, damaging tea plantations and orange groves, the newspaper said. It added that spring sowing in southern parts of the country was some two weeks behind schedule because of the late thaw but gave no precise crop estimates. In the most detailed report to date on the heavy snows in January and floods in February, Izvestia said 8,200 people had been evacuated from mountain areas, 4,500 houses had been damaged and hundreds of kilometres of roads and power lines had been destroyed. A separate article in the daily warned that a sudden thaw was expected shortly in the Ukraine and southern parts of Russia, which experienced record snows this winter. Preventive measures have already been taken in some areas including the evacuation of cattle.