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Mount Kazbek or Mount Kazbegi [a] is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus, located in Georgia, just south of the border with Russia. [ 6 ] Lying at 5,054 meters (16,581 ft) above at sea level, Mount Kazbek is the highest mountain in Eastern Georgia .
Satellite image of the Caucasus Mountains. The Caucasus Mountains [a] is a mountain range at the intersection of Asia and Europe. Stretching between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, they are surrounded by the Caucasus region and are home to Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe at 5,642 metres (18,510 ft) above sea level.
It is at the east base of Mount Kazbek, south of present-day Vladikavkaz. The gorge was carved by the river Terek, and is approximately 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) long. The steep granite walls of the gorge can be as much as 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) tall in some places. [1] The Georgian Military Road runs through the gorge.
Escape from Tarkov is a multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video game in development by Battlestate Games for Microsoft Windows.The game is set in the fictional Norvinsk region in northwestern Russia, where a war is taking place between two private military companies (United Security "USEC" and the Battle Encounter Assault Regiment "BEAR").
Yosif Buzurtanov (Russian: Йосиф Бузуртанов) — an Ingush mountaineer and hunter, also called Yosif the Mokhevian, [a] the first person to ascend Mount Kazbek in the Caucasus in the second half of the 18th century. Yosif Buzurtanov was a resident of the medieval village Gveleti (Ingush: Gelatĕ), abode of the Ingush clan ...
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Gergeti (Georgian: გერგეთი; also known as Ortsveri) is a glacier located on the southeastern slope of Mt. Kazbek in the Kazbegi District of Georgia. The length of the Gergeti glacier is 7.1 km (4.4 mi) and its surface area is 11 km 2 (4.2 sq mi). The tongue of Gergeti descends to 2,900 metres (9,500 ft) above sea level.
It drains the northern slopes and glaciers of Mount Kazbek north to the Terek. The river is 80 kilometres (50 mi) long, with a drainage basin of 604 square kilometres (233 sq mi). [ 1 ] A valley with many cliffs and a 4000-metre peak, [ 2 ] the area is prone to avalanches; 30 were reported in 1967–1968. [ 3 ]