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unusual facts about North Ossetia



2006 North Ossetia pipeline explosions

The 2006 North Ossetia pipeline explosions consisted of two explosions on the MozdokTbilisi pipeline in North Ossetia on January 22, 2006.

2008 Vladikavkaz bombing

The 2008 Vladikavkaz bombing took place on a routed taxicab, which was unloading passengers at a market in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Russia on November 6, 2008 killing 12 and injuring 41.

Circassia

Circassia’s historical great range extended from the Taman Peninsula in the west, to the town of Mozdok in today’s North Ossetia–Alania in the east.

Khuseyn Gakayev

Gakayev was born on 8 July 1970 in the village of Kalinovskaya, which is located in the Naur district of Chechnya bordering Mozdok, North Ossetia.

Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline

The Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Mozdok in North Ossetia through Chechnya and Dagestan to Azerbaijan.

North Ossetia–Alania

The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetian and Russian.

There are two official languages in North Ossetia – Russian, which is official for all federal subjects of Russia (North Ossetia being a republic), and Ossetian.

Ruslan Aushev

During the First Chechen War as many as 200,000 refugees from Chechnya and neighboring North Ossetia strained Ingushetia's already weak economy and on several occasions, Aushev protested incursions by Russian soldiers, and even threatened to sue the Russian Ministry of Defence for damages inflicted.

Samashki massacre

The male population of the village was detained indiscriminately in the hundreds and taken to the "filtration camp" in the town of Mozdok in North Ossetia or to the temporary holding center in the nearby Chechen village of Assinovskaya (a number of them were executed during the march while tied to the armoured vehicles).

Terek Cossacks

In the 1930s, to make the mountainous autonomies more sustainable in economical terms, they were united with the remaining Cossack holdings: the Sunzha district was retaken by the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, the former capital of the Terek Oblast, Vladikavkaz became the administrative centre for North Ossetia, likewise the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Oblast was also awarded to Cossack territories.

Zarema Muzhakhoyeva

Before being sent to Moscow, Muzhakhoyeva also failed a mission to attack a bus with the Russian Air Force personnel in Mozdok, North Ossetia, and lived in the house of Nur-Pashi Kulayev in Ingushetia.


see also

Alagirsky

Alagirskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Alagir Town Under District Jurisdiction in Alagirsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania is incorporated as

Alagirsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia

Ardonsky

Ardonskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Ardon Town Under District Jurisdiction in Ardonsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia is re incorporated as

Ardonsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

Bekan

Bekan, Russia, a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of Ardon Town Under District Jurisdiction in Ardonsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

Digorsky

Digorsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

Digorskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Digora Town Under District Jurisdiction in Digorsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia is incorporated as

History of North Ossetia–Alania

Some 70,000 South Ossetian refugees were resettled in North Ossetia, sparking clashes with the predominantly Ingush population in the Prigorodny District.

As of 1944, the part of the Prigorodny District on the right bank of the Terek River had been part of Chechen-Ingush ASSR, but it was granted to North Ossetia in following Joseph Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia.

Kolka

Kolka Glacier, a glacier in North Ossetia, Russia, near Mount Kazbek

Mozdoksky

Mozdokskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Mozdok Town Under District Jurisdiction in Mozdoksky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia is incorporated as

Mozdoksky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

Roki Tunnel

The road is manned at the town of Nizhny Zaramag in North Ossetia and is sometimes referred to as the Roki-Nizhny Zaramag border crossing.

Taymuraz Mamsurov

In July 2008, he accused the Western diplomats of plotting a “Jesuitical plan” of uniting South Ossetia and North Ossetia into a single entity in order to then push it into NATO through Georgia.