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Tyrnyauz
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Tyrnyauz (; , Tırnıawuz) is a town and the administrative center of Elbrussky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Russia, located on the main road leading to the Upper Baksan valley area and on the main climbing route for Mount Elbrus. Population: Tyrnyauz is the largest town in the Baksan Valley and an essential provisioning point for trips into the Elbrus region.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Tyrnyauz
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Тырныауз
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_name2
- Тырныаўуз
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_lang2
- Balkar
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Летний Тырныауз.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- Tyrnyauz in Summer
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Tyrnyauz.gif
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coats of arms of Tyrnyauz.gif
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Kabardino-Balkar Republic
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Elbrussky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Elbrussky District
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Elbrussky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Tyrnyauz Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Elbrussky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2
- Tyrnyauz Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 21000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Гирхожан
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Elbrussky District
- Official language
- Russian
- Population
- 22334
- Area
- 61.8
- Elevation
- 1307
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Elbrussky District
- Official website
- admtyrnyauz.ru
- Image
- Зимний Тырныауз.jpg
- Dialing code
- 86638
Show 6 more facts
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Tyrnyauz
- inception
- 1934-01-01
- Commons category
- Tyrnyauz
- postal code
- 361621–361624
- native label
- Тырныаууз
- Köppen climate classification
- humid continental climate
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Tyrnyauz tragedy
- Administrative and municipal status
- Demographics
- Ethnic composition
- Notable people
- References
- Notes
- Sources
Tyrnyauz (; , Tırnıawuz) is a town and the administrative center of Elbrussky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, Russia, located on the main road leading to the Upper Baksan valley area and on the main climbing route for Mount Elbrus. Population: Tyrnyauz is the largest town in the Baksan Valley and an essential provisioning point for trips into the Elbrus region.
==History== The city was founded as the village of Gerkhozhan in 1934, at the discovery of the Tyrnyauz tungsten-molybdenum deposit. Prior to that, on the territory of the modern city there were villages - Gerkhozhan, Kamuk, Totur and El-Dzhurt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tyrnyauz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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