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Tskhinvali (tskhĭn`välĭ), city (1989 pop. 42,934), capital of South Ossetia, N Georgia. The city has lumber mills and electrical products plants. Its name was changed to Staliniri in 1934 but was changed back to Tskhinvali in 1961. Georgian troops shelled and occupied the city in 1992.

Tskhinvali

(from 1934 to 1961, Staliniri), a city (since 1922) and the administrative center of Iuzhnaia Osetiia Autonomous Oblast, Georgian SSR. Situated on the Bol’shoe Liakhvi River, a tributary of the Kura River, at an elevation of 870 m. Joined by railroad line (33 km) with Gori station, on the Samtredia-Baku line. Population, 33,000 (1974). The Emal’provod and Elektrovibromashina plants are located in Tskhinvali. The city also has a repair shop for buses, a machine shop, a chemical plant, a timber combine, and a garment factory. There is food-processing industry (meat-packaging plant, dairy, and cannery) and building materials industry. The Iuzhnaia Osetiia Scientific Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR is located in Tskhinvali. Other educational institutions include a pedagogical institute and schools of agriculture, medicine, music, and art. The Kost Khetagurov Drama Theater (with Ossetiian and Georgian companies) and a museum of local lore are in Tskhinvali.

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No references found	In the mission's view, it was Georgia which triggered off the war when it attacked Tskhinvali (in South Ossetia) with heavy artillery on the night of 7 to 8 August, 2008," the head of the fact-finding mission said. Georgia started war amid Russian provocation: probe by AFP / AFP Global Edition Naturally the man who ordered the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, president Mikheil Saakashvili, denies the war crimes accusations, meanwhile concedes Georgia's attack on Tskhinvali was "wrong on several levels", but feels that discussion of its war crimes is "not terribly useful". The truth about South Ossetia by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk The head of Russian peacekeeping troops in the South Ossetia area, General Marat Kulakhmetov, made the announcement at their base in the regional capital, Tskhinvali. Russians pulling out by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)	Tsiranana, Philibert Tsirlin, Aleksandr Tsirlin, Aleksandr Danilovich Tsiteli-Tskaro Tsitovich, Gennadii Tsitovich, Gennadii Ivanovich Tsitsianov, Pavel Tsitsianov, Pavel Dmitrievich Tsitsihar Tsitsin, Nikolai Tsitsin, Nikolai Vasilevich Tsiurupa, Aleksandr Tsiurupa, Aleksandr Dmitrievich Tsiurupinsk Tsiurupy Imeni Tsivil Tsivilsk Tsivolko, Avgust Tsivolko, Avgust Karlovich Tsivtsivadze, Ilia Tsivtsivadze, Ilia Venediktovich Tskhakaia, Mikhail Tskhakaia, Mikhail Grigorevich Tskhaltubo Tskhenistskali Tskhinvali Tskhneti TSL-1 Tsna Tsnori TSO Tso Tsung-t'ang Tso Tsung-Tang Tsogto Taiji Tsola Dragoicheva Tsolak Aleksandrovich Stepanian Tsolak Amerikian Tsolak Keropovich Amerikian Tsolak Stepanian Tsomak Gadiev Tsomak Sekaevich Gadiev Tsongkhapa TSOP Tsou Jung tsp tspn TSPP TSR Tsromi Tsu Tsu Hsi	Tsiyon TSJ TSJC TSJCL TSJD Tsjechov Tsjechov Tsjechow Tsjechow Tsjernobyl Tsjernobyl Tsjernobyl TSJH TSJL TSJP TSJRTC TSJS TSJV tsk tsk TSKA TSKAGB TSKB Tskhakaia, Mikhail Tskhakaia, Mikhail Grigorevich Tskhaltubo Tskhaltybo Tskhenistskali Tskhinval Tskhinval Tskhinvali Tskhinvali region Tskhinvali region Tskhneti Tskhumi Tskhumi TSKI TSKJ TSKL TSKR TSKS TSKSR TSKU TSKVGSS TSKZ TSL TSL-1 TSLA TSLAC TSLB TSLC TSLCC TSLCC-E TSLD TSLE Tsleil-Waututh First Nation TSLF

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In the mission's view, it was Georgia which triggered off the war when it attacked Tskhinvali (in South Ossetia) with heavy artillery on the night of 7 to 8 August, 2008," the head of the fact-finding mission said.

Georgia started war amid Russian provocation: probe by AFP / AFP Global Edition

Naturally the man who ordered the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, president Mikheil Saakashvili, denies the war crimes accusations, meanwhile concedes Georgia's attack on Tskhinvali was "wrong on several levels", but feels that discussion of its war crimes is "not terribly useful".

The truth about South Ossetia by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

The head of Russian peacekeeping troops in the South Ossetia area, General Marat Kulakhmetov, made the announcement at their base in the regional capital, Tskhinvali.

Russians pulling out by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)