Kvaisa

Kwaissa ( Ossetian Къуайса / Khuajsa, Russian Кваиси / Kwaissi and now mostly Квайса / Kwaissa; Georgian კვაისა / Kwaissa or კვაისი / Kwaissi ) is a city or urban-type settlement in South Ossetia ( Rajon dsau ) and Georgia, in the region Racha - Letschchumi and Niederswanetien. The place is controlled exclusively by South Ossetia.

Location

The place is in the northwest of South Ossetia on the left bank of the Dschedschora (also Dschodschora ), a left tributary of the Rioni. About 15 km north-east of the town of there almost 4000 meters high main ridge of the Greater Caucasus marks the border with Russia. Kwaissi is a good 45 km, by road 60 km north- west of the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali.

The authorities of the Republic of South Ossetia, the place is called the city since 2007 and counted for Rajon dsau to which he already belonged during the South Ossetian autonomy within the Georgian SSR of the Soviet Union until 1991. From Rajonverwaltungssitz dsau (Georgian Djawa ) Kwaissi is a good 25 km as the crow flies in a northwesterly direction. According to Georgian law Kwaissi heard as a small town (Georgian: daba, according to a Soviet urban-type settlement ) to the municipality Oni the Racha - Letschchumi and Niederswanetien region.

Not far Kwaissi runs a pipeline was opened in 2009 by North Ossetian Dsuarikau at Alagir to Tskhinvali, South Ossetia via the by Russia on the 3148 meter high Kudar Pass is supplied with natural gas.

History

Kwaissi originated around 1940 as a mining town situated close to the village on the opposite side of the river Tschassawal ( i), as to opening up there in 1925 discovered lead and Zinkerzvorkommens was started. The resolution adopted on February 26, 1941 Construction of a mining complex with factory ore enrichment was delayed by the German -Soviet war, so he went into operation only on 22 October 1949. Later came the river hydroelectric power plant to the local electricity supply.

On 29 April 1991 and 7/8 September 2009 Kwaissi was hit hard by the earthquake affected.

Note: Census data

Swell

  • Article Kwaissi in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE ), 3rd Edition 1969-1978 (Russian)
  • History of the city (in Russian )

Capital: Tskhinvali ( Tskhinvali )

Akhalgori ( Leningor ) | Djawa ( dsau ) | Snauri ( Snaur ) | Kwaissi ( Kwaissa )

  • Place in Racha - Letschchumi and Niederswanetien
  • Place in South Ossetia
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