Vladikavkaz

Vladikavkaz, is the capital city of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia. It is situated in the southeast of the republic at the lower regions of the Caucasus Mountains, arranged on the Terek River. The city is a modern and transportation focus. Made items incorporate handled zinc and lead, apparatus, synthetic concoctions, dress and nourishment items.

The city was established in 1784 as a stronghold amid the Russian victory of the Caucasus and was for a long time the principle Russian army installation in the locale. The Georgian Military Highway, crossing the mountains, was developed in 1799 to interface the city with Georgia toward the south, and in 1875 a railroad was worked to associate it to Rostov-on-Don and Baku in Azerbaijan. Vladikavkaz has turned into a critical mechanical place for the locale, with purifying, refining, synthetics and assembling enterprises.

The city is one of the biggest in the Russian-controlled Caucasus, alongside Grozny, and was the capital of the Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, a Soviet Republic set up after the addition of the Mountainous Republic of the North Caucasus. The manikin state existed from 1921 to 1924 and was a piece of, and sometimes consolidated, the cutting edge domains of Chechnya, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.