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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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Terek
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and Georgia, rising in the Caucasus, in Georgia, in glaciers W of Mt. Kazbek. It flows N through the Daryal gorge past Vladikavkaz, then E past Grozny and NE into the Caspian Sea. Below Kizlyar it forms a swampy delta c.60 mi (100 km) wide. In its...
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