Pitsunda (Abkhaz: Пиҵунда, Georgian: ბიჭვინთა, Bichvinta; Russian: Пицунда) is a resort town in Gagra district of Abkhazia.

The town was founded by the Greeks in the 5th century BC as a trade colony Pityus (Ancient Greek: Pityus, Πιτυοῦς, genitive Pityuntos, Πιτυοῦντος) or Pitiunt. Excavations guided by Andria Apakidze unearthed remains of three 4th-century churches and a bath with superb mosaic floors. The former "Great Pityus" harbour is now a mere lake within the town. Saint John Chrysostom was exiled there and died near the shore in 407. Like Dioskurias, remained under Roman control within the Diocese of Pontus until the 7th century. The city passed under Abasgian control and became one of the major political and religious centres of the kingdom of Egrisi (Lazica). An archbishopric of Pitiunt was instituted in 541. In medieval Georgia, the town's name was spelled as Bichvinta. At the end of the 10th century, King Bagrat III of Georgia built there the Pitsunda Cathedral which survives to this day and contains vestiges of wall-painting from the 13th and the 16th centuries. Bichvinta also served as the seat of the Georgian Orthodox Catholicate of Abkhazia until the late 16th century when Abkhazia came under the Ottoman hegemony. It is still a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. In the late 13th century, the area housed a short-lived Genoese trade colony called Pezonda.

Hibla Gerzmava (Abkhaz: Хьыбла Гьырзмааԥҳа IPA: /ˈχʲəbla gʲərzˈmaapʰha/, Russian: Хибла Леварсовна Герзмава), born January 6, 1970 in Pitsunda, Abkhazia, is an Abkhazian and Russian operatic soprano who currently resides in Moscow.

Hibla Gerzmava graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory in 1994, and completed its post-graduate course in 1996. Since 1995 she has been a soloist of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.

Gerzmava has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the National Opera and Ballet in Sofia and the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan.

In 2008 Gerzmava made her Covent Garden debut as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. Her voice being described as clear and focused, yet also full of colour and with a reservoir of power that enables her to ride the biggest fortes like a surfer on a wave.

In the winter of 2009, Gerzmava performed for the first time the role of Lucia in the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.