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Alagir

North Ossetia Alania, Russia
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Alagir is a mechanical town and the managerial focus of Alagirsky District in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia, situated on the west bank of the Ardon River, 54 kilometers west of the republic's capital Vladikavkaz. As of the 2010 Census, its populace was 20,949. The town was set up in 1850 by Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, the Viceroy of the Caucasus, almost an antiquated silver/ lead mine in the close-by Alagir Gorge. It was developed as a fortress around a refining plant and turned into a noteworthy mining focus. Before the finish of the 19th century, it had been progressively populated by Georgians and Russians who came to work there.
Amid the Russian Civil War, in January 1919, Alagir was a scene of exceptional battling, which brought about substantial losses in Georgian populace and troublesome trip of the survivors through the precipitous goes into Georgia. The Soviet pioneer Vladimir Lenin remarked on the occurrence, faulting "counter-progressives" for abominations in Alagir, which Georgians will in general credit to the Ossetian radicals. Alagir was conceded town status in 1938. During World War II, on November 5, 1942, the German III Panzer Corps and Romanian second Mountain Division caught the town and held it until the point that it was recuperated by the Soviet powers toward the beginning of January 1943.

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