According my Guidebook, Peter Nasmyth: Walking in the Caucasus, Georgia from 2006 the valley had been inhabited by Ossetians, who had lived there for centuries.
South Ossetia declared its intention to secede from Georgia in 1990 and, the following year, declared de facto independence. In August 2008 Georgia's efforts to regain control of the area suffered a crippling blow when Russia - the South Ossetian separatists' military backers - defeated a Georgian incursion into South Ossetia in a bloody five-day conflict.
The Ossetians of Truso Valley seems to have been among the people displaced as a result of this conflict, today no people seems to be living in the valley.
We drove to the village Okrokano.
After village Okrokano we walked on a small jeep track along the river in a narrow gorge
Tergi River
After walking in the Tergi Gorge for an hour it opened up and became a valley. 
A spring rich in hydrocarbonate, iron and other minerals - like a big bottle of mineral water
Tergi River and in the background Ketrisi Village
Ketrisi Village, Tergi River and some deposits from a mineral spring
Deposits from another mineral spring
Only ruins were left in Ketrisi Village, no inhabitants any more
A police post, no trespassing beyond Ketrisi Village – in the foreground another hiker. In my guidebook from 2006 this hike continues to the next village, and there another hike is described that goes further up the valley – but this possibility is history.
On our way back to Okrokano Village
Tergi Gorge
Tergi River
Okrokano Village – with a military helicopter in the backyard of one of the houses
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