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Kazbegi

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Kazbegi 

(until 1921, Stepantsminda), an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of Kazbegi Raion, Georgian SSR. Situated at the foot of Mount Kazbek on the upper course of the Terek River; elevation 1, 750 m.

Kazbegi is on the Georgian Military Road 46 km south ofOrdzhonikidze. The settlement is the site of the bottling plant forKazbegi Mineral Water (Narzan type) and of the A. KazbegiMuseum of Local Lore. Ascents to the summit of Mount Kazbekbegin in Kazbegi. A cable railway runs from Kazbegi to Sameb.There is a tourist center near Kazbegi.



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He divides Stalin's life into three acts: first, the early years when he was called Soso, until his expulsion from a Tiflis seminary in 1899; second, his rise as a revolutionary nicknamed Koba after the hero of his favorite book, "The Parricide," by the Georgian author Kazbegi, and third, his mature years as Stalin, communism's ruthless man of steel.
 
 
 
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