The Timberline and the Subalpine Belt in the Caucasus Mountains, USSR

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 409 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Dolukhanov
Keyword(s):  
The Caucasus ◽  
Subalpine Belt ◽  
Caucasus Mountains

Manuscript about the claims of the Onomatodoxists to Pitsunda skete of the New Athos Monastery

2021 ◽  
pp. 295-320
Author(s):  
Marina S. Krutova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
State Library

The Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library contains materials of different genres about the claims of the Onomatodoxists to Pitsunda skete of the New Athos Monastery, named after Simon the Canaanean — letters, reports, petitions. The reason for the Onomatodoxists disputes is believed to be the book “On the Caucasus Mountains” by Schemamonk Ilarion (worldly Ivan Domrachyov), who was assigned to the New Athos monastery after he had left Old Athos. The originals of the published documents are kept in the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library in the fund of Bishop Nikon (worldly Nikolay Rozhdestvenskiy); the former was a member of the Most Holy Synod, actively opposed the religious movement which arose on Old Athos in the early 20th century. The value of the published documents lies in the fact that they tell about a little-known page in the history of the New Athos Monastery.

Why Does Russia Invade Its Neighbors?

Near Abroad ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Toal
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
South Ossetia ◽  
Neighboring State ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Russian Military

It was supposed to be China’s coming-out party, a moment in the global spotlight affirming its arrival as an economic superpower. But hours before the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, news of a war in the Caucasus flashed across the world’s TV screens. On the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, the state of Georgia launched a military offensive against South Ossetia, a small breakaway territory beyond its control since the Soviet collapse. Georgia’s offensive quickly brought Russia to the defense of its local Ossetian allies. As Soviet-era tanks rolled through the Roki tunnel, the only land connection between South Ossetia and Russia, Russian aircraft bombed Georgian targets in the region and beyond. For the first time since the Cold War ended, Russia was invading a neighboring state. Instead of glowing stories about China, speculation about a new Cold War filled the front pages of the Western press. Yet within a week the war was over and a ceasefire agreed. Thereafter a rapidly moving global financial crisis displaced what seemed a harbinger of geopolitical rupture to an afterthought. As quickly as it had flared, the Russo-Georgian war disappeared, and with it talk of a return to geopolitics past. Six years later Russia was in the global spotlight as host of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, located on the shores of the Black Sea at the western end of the Caucasus Mountains. Despite well-grounded fears of terrorism, the Olympics were a triumph for Russia and its leadership. Yet a few days later, the world recoiled in shock as Russia once again invaded a neighboring state. Responding to a perceived “fascist coup” in Kyiv, unmarked Russian military personnel seized control of the Ukrainian province of Crimea, once part of Soviet Russia and home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. A hastily organized referendum followed, creating the appearance of legitimacy for Russia to formally annex the province, and the city of Sevastopol, in late March 2014.

From Sufism to Universal Vision: Murat Yagan and the Teaching of Kebzeh

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Chen Bram ◽  
Meir Hatina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
First Time

This article examines aspects of cultural exchange between the Middle East and the West in which Sufism, Christianity, the traditions of the Circassians and New Age concepts played a central role. It focuses on the teaching of Murat Yagan, of Abkhaz-Circassian origin who grew up in Turkey and immigrated to Canada in the 1960s, where he developed his philosophy, Ahmsta Kebzeh (“the knowledge of the art of living”). The Kebzeh way of life emphasizes modesty, mutual responsibility and compassion. Yagan linked these values to the ancient ethos of the Caucasus Mountains which he sought to revive as the basis of a universal vision. The nature of Kebzeh was influenced by the cosmopolitan environment in which Yagan was educated in Turkey; by his enrollment with Sufi circles in North America; and by the multicultural Canadian atmosphere. These diverse influences enabled him to devise an ecumenical model of dialogue between cultures. The article provides a first-time survey and analysis of Kebzeh ideological and communal features. It sheds new light on the role of ethnicity and cultural heritage in immigrant societies in the context of the evolution of spirituality in Canada, a relatively unexplored milieu in comparison to the United States and Europe.

Cytology and morphology of Pseudoroegneria deweyi (Poaceae: Triticeae): a new species from the foot hills of the Caucasus Mountains (Russia)

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (5) ◽  
pp. 900-909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin B. Jensen ◽  
S. L. Hatch ◽  
J. K. Wipff
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Chromosome Association ◽  
Agropyron Cristatum ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
A New Species

Cytological and morphological characteristics of a new species, Pseudoroegneria deweyi K. B. Jensen, from the Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya Avtonomnaya Oblast' Region of Russia are described. This species is cytologically stable, genomically similar to Pseudoroegneria tauri, highly fertile (cross-pollinating), and morphologically unique compared with most other species in the genus. Pseudoroegneria deweyi differs from other closely related species in the number of rachis nodes in the inflorescence. Pseudoroegneria stipifolia (2n = 2x = 14, SS) and Agropyron cristatum (2n = 2x = 14, PP) were used as male parents in crosses with P. deweyi. All three P. deweyi accessions studied were tetraploids (2n = 28) and behaved meiotically as allotetraploids with a mean chromosome association of 0.03 I + 13.30 II + 0.03 III + 0.26 IV per cell. In the hybrid P. deweyi × A. cristatum, average chromosome association was 5.92 I + 4.55 II + 1.83 III + 0.09 IV per cell, while the average chromosome association in P. deweyi × P. stipifolia was 4.98 I + 5.23 II + 1.73 III 0.04 IV per cell. Pseudoroegneria deweyi joins P. tauri as the only other known naturally occurring species with the genomic formula of SSPP. Cluster analysis of 21 morphological characters supports the inclusion of P. deweyi as part of the genus Pseudoroegneria rather than Agropyron. Key words: Agropyron, Pseudoroegneria, chromosome pairing, meiosis, Triticeae, new species.

An Average Azeri Village (1930): Remembering Rebellion in the Caucasus Mountains

Slavic Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Grant
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Soviet Rule ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Caucasus Mountains

In this article, Bruce Grant advocates an anthropological perspective for understanding resistance to early Soviet rule, given that not all anti-Soviet rebellions operated by the same cultural logic. Combining oral histories and archival evidence to reconstruct highly charged events in rural northwest Azerbaijan, where as many as 10,000 men and women joined to overthrow Soviet power in favor of an Islamic republic in 1930, Grant examines moral archetypes of banditry, religious frames of Caucasus life, magical mobility, and images of early nationalist struggle against communism. Exploring what it means to have been “average” in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, Grant invites readers to consider classic narrative framings of periods of great tumult.

scholarly journals Late-20th-century changes in glacier extent in the Caucasus Mountains, Russia/Georgia

2006 ◽  
Vol 52 (176) ◽  
pp. 99-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris R. Stokes ◽  
Stephen D. Gurney ◽  
Maria Shahgedanova ◽  
Victor Popovnin
Keyword(s):  
Field Measurements ◽  
Thematic Mapper ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Central Caucasus ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Colour Composite ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractGlaciers occupy an area of ~1600km2 in the Caucasus Mountains. There is widespread evidence of retreat since the Little Ice Age, but an up-to-date regional assessment of glacier change is lacking. In this paper, satellite imagery (Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus) is used to obtain the terminus position of 113 glaciers in the central Caucasus in 1985 and 2000, using a manual delineation process based on a false-colour composite (bands 5, 4, 3). Measurements reveal that 94% of the glaciers have retreated, 4% exhibited no overall change and 2% advanced. The mean retreat rate equates to ~8ma–1, and maximum retreat rates approach ~38 m a–1. The largest (>10 km2) glaciers retreated twice as much (~12ma–1) as the smallest (<1 km2) glaciers (~6ma–1), and glaciers at lower elevations generally retreated greater distances. Supraglacial debris cover has increased in association with glacier retreat, and the surface area of bare ice has reduced by ~10% between 1985 and 2000. Results are compared to declassified Corona imagery from the 1960s and 1970s and detailed field measurements and mass-balance data for Djankuat glacier, central Caucasus. It is concluded that the decrease in glacier area appears to be primarily driven by increasing temperatures since the 1970s and especially since the mid-1990s. Continued retreat could lead to considerable changes in glacier runoff, with implications for regional water resources.

Mayflies of the Caucasus Mountains. II. Description of the first representative of the subgenus Helvetoraeticus Bauernfeind & Soldán, 2012 (Heptageniidae: Ecdyonurus)

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3608 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
NIKITA J. KLUGE ◽  
ROMAN J. GODUNKO ◽  
DMITRY A. APANASKEVICH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Ventral Side ◽  
Posterior Border ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Lateral Projection ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
Autonomous Republic

The first representative of the subgenus Helvetoraeticus Bauernfeind & Soldán, 2012, from the Caucasus Mountains, Ecdyonurus (Helvetoraeticus) adjaricus sp. nov., is described on the basis of larvae, female imago (reared from larva) and male imago from the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Georgia. The male imago of the new species can be separated from other representatives of Helvetoraeticus by its conspicuous yellowish wings coloration (especially of hind wings) and the shape of the penis lobes. The larva has a distinctive broad and apically pointed lateral projection on the pronotum, pointed bristles on the ventral side of the posterior border of the femora and markedly long, sharp posterolateral expansions of abdominal sterna. This last character is unique within Helvetoraeticus. The new species is most closely related to E. krueperi (Stein, 1863).

scholarly journals The Huns in the Plains of Crimea

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Aibabin
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The State ◽  
State Farm ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Caucasus Mountains ◽  
Syrian Coast ◽  
Written Sources

The article reviews some evidence of written sources about the Huns in the Crimea and the Huns’ burials found in the plains of the Crimea. Many researchers of the Crimean history dated the invasion of the Huns in the Northern Black Sea region to the time of the reign of Emperor Valens (364–378) taking into account the information of only some narrative sources. However, there is no information about the Huns’ crossing through the Cimmerian Bosporus Strait and the attack on the Bosporus cities in the 370s in the written sources. According to Syrian and Greek sources, N.V. Pigulevskaya reasonably attributed Huns’ crossing through Meotida and the Caucasus Mountains to Mesopotamia and the Syrian coast to 395. This date is confirmed by the updated chronology of nomadic burials known in the Crimea and ceramics from Bosporan cities and settlements. Apparently, the Huns appeared on the peninsula after their settlement in the Northern Black Sea region at the end of the 4th – 5th centuries. Huns tombs on the hillside of Koklyuk, from the State Farm named after Kalinin, from Belyaus and on the necropolis of Ust-Alma are dated back to the first half of the 5th century by polychrome things. According to the funeral rite, the described Crimean graves of the first half of the 5th century are similar to the graves excavated under the kurgans with horse skin known in steppes of the Northern Black Sea region. I.P. Zasetskaya reasonably associated them with the Turks, who were part of the Hunnic tribal union. Nomad burials in Izobilnoe were attributed to the second half of the 5th century, in Marfovka – to the end of the 5th century, and in Chykarenko – to the first half of the 6th century. The graves of nomads of the first half of the 5th century belonged to the Akatziri, and the graves of the second half of the 5th century – first half of the 6th century belonged to Huns-Altziagiri.

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