Alagir

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Town in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia

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::summary Town in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia ::

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en_nameAlagir
ru_nameАлагир
loc_name1Алагир
loc_lang1Ossetic
image_skylineСвсобор.jpg
image_captionThe Cathedral of the Assumption, Alagir
coordinates
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adm_district_jurAlagirsky District
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adm_ctr_of1Alagirsky District
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inhabloc_catTown
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mun_district_jurAlagirsky Municipal District
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urban_settlement_jurAlagirskoye Urban Settlement
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mun_admctr_of1Alagirsky Municipal District
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mun_admctr_of2Alagirskoye Urban Settlement
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pop_2010census20949
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established_date1850
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current_cat_date1938
postal_codes363240–363243, 363245, 363246
dialing_codes86731
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Etymology

The name is derived from Ossetian Uællag 'Upper' and Ir 'Ossetia'.

History

The town was established in 1850 by Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, the Viceroy of the Caucasus, near an ancient silver/lead mine in the nearby Alagir Gorge. It was built up as a fortification around a smelting plant and became a major mining center. By the end of the 19th century, it had been increasingly populated by Georgians and Russians who came to work there. During the Russian Civil War, in January 1919, Alagir was a scene of intense fighting, which resulted in heavy casualties in Georgian population and difficult flight of the survivors through the mountainous passes into Georgia. The Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin commented on the incident, blaming "counter-revolutionaries" for atrocities in Alagir, which Georgians tend to attribute to the Ossetian radicals.

Alagir was granted town status in 1938. During World War II, on November 5, 1942, the German III Panzer Corps and Romanian 2nd Mountain Division (under von Kleist) captured the town and held it until it was recovered by the Soviet forces in early January 1943.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Alagir serves as the administrative center of Alagirsky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with two rural localities, incorporated within Alagirsky District as Alagir Town Under District Jurisdiction. As a municipal division, the town of Alagir (without the rural localities) is incorporated within Alagirsky Municipal District as Alagirskoye Urban Settlement.

Economy

The town's economy is still dominated by mining and mineral extraction, but it also has significant woodworking, canning, and manufacturing industries.

Demographics

|title=Alagir population |bodystyle=width:23.5em |label1=2010 Census |data1=20,949 |label2=2002 Census |data2=21,496 |label3=1989 Census |data3=21,132 |label4=1979 Census |data4=19,007

Major ethnic groups comprising the town's population, as of 2002, are:

Notable people

References

Notes

Sources

References

  1. {{ru-pop-ref. 2010Census
  2. "Алагир".
  3. (2003). "Энциклопедия Города России". Большая Российская Энциклопедия.
  4. {{in lang. ru A.I. Melnin (1973), "Октябрьская революция и гражданская война в Северной Осетии" (''The October Revolution and Civil War in North Ossetia''), p. 225. [[Vladikavkaz. Ordzhonikidze]]: Ir
  5. "Alagir incident (1919)", in: Mikaberidze, Alexander (2007), Historical Dictionary of Georgia, p. 106. Scarecrow Press, {{ISBN. 0-8108-5580-1
  6. "WorldWar2.ro - the 3rd Army in the Caucasus - 1942".
  7. Law #34-RZ
  8. Law #11-RZ
  9. {{ru-pop-ref. 2002Census
  10. {{ru-pop-ref. 1989Census
  11. {{ru-pop-ref. 1979Census

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