Teberda

Teberda (Russian Теберда ) is a small town in the southern Russian republic of Karachay -Cherkessia with 9058 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the Greater Caucasus about 100 km south of the Republic Capital Tscherkessk river of the same Teberda, a left tributary of the Kuban. The city center lies at an altitude of about 1300 meters. This Teberda is the highest town in Russia. The place surrounding the side ridges of the Caucasus main ridge achieve in this area peak heights of 3746 m ( Malaya Marka) and 3822 m ( Kyschkadscher ). The south-east of the district Dombai on the border with Georgia located Dombai - Ulgen is the westernmost 4046 m with four peaks of the Caucasus.

Teberda is the city Karatschajewsk subordinated administratively.

The city is located ( for cars difficult to pass, closed since the conflict in 1992/93 ) at the old army Suchumer road that leads through the 2781 meter high Kluchoripass the Abkhaz Sukhumi.

History

The village was founded in 1868 as karatschaische settlement, named after the tribe inhabiting it Baitschoraly - Kabak.

At the beginning of the 20th century created the first private country houses of wealthy Russians, the first of which was in 1925 converted into a tuberculosis sanatorium. In subsequent years, a greater number of sanatoriums arose, the village was expanded to the spa, which under the present name was given the status of an urban-type settlement in 1929 ( after the river ).

This development continued after the Second World War continued, as far as the 1970s sanatoriums as Gornoje uschtschelje ( ravine ), Kluchori, the hotels Teberda and Dombai and mountaineering base Asgek emerged. This was Teberda - southwest adjacent to the upper Baksan Valley of Elbrus ( Terskol, Asau ) - the most important tourist center of the Soviet Union in the central part of the Caucasus.

In 1971, the settlement town rights.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

The main attraction is the high mountain landscape surrounding the town. South of the city extends the original 1935 furnished Sapowednik Teberda, now about 85,000 acres, Biosphere Reserve and in 1994 winner of the European Diploma of Protected Areas. The nature reserve is, however, another section through the development of tourism, especially in alpine skiing, threatened. The management of the site is located in Teberda.

In Teberda there is a museum on the history of the place and of tourism and mountain sports in the area, as well as a Mineralogical Museum.

Economy

Teberda is mountaineering and alpine ski center and health resort.