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Vladikavkaz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vladikavkaz , city (1989 pop. 300,000), capital of North Ossetia-Alania...Dzaudzhikau in 1944, again Ordzhonikidze in 1954, and once again Vladikavkaz in 1990. The famous Kazbek Peak rises just above the city. The city...
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Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Russian Civil War and struggled with morphine addiction. In 1920 he abandoned medicine for a writing career and moved to Vladikavkaz, Caucasus, where he wrote feuilletons and studied theater. Bulgakov moved to Moscow in 1921. There his troubles with...
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Osetins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...settlements and forts in the plains between Vladikavkaz and Mozdok. Beginning in the second...and White armies vied for control of Vladikavkaz, the main political and economic center...conflicts also broke out in the suburbs of Vladikavkaz between Osetin and Ingush groups. While...
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Ossetia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...divided along the Terek River. North Ossetia is an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation, whose capital is Vladikavkaz. South Ossetia is an autonomous region of Georgia , whose capital is Tshkinvali. Ossetia is a mountainous agricultural...
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Caucasian Wars
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...first viceroy of the Caucasus in 1785, although the actual extent of Russian control reached only as far south as Mozdok and Vladikavkaz. Meanwhile, military campaigns guided by Potemkin and General Alexander Suvorov penetrated far along the Caspian and Black...
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