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    The Sukhumi or Sukhum okrug was a special administrative district (okrug) in the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, part of the Kutaisi Governorate...
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    Sukhumi (see also other names) is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the capital and largest city of the Republic of Abkhazia...
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    the Tiflis Governorate was 84,224 according to the 1897 census. The Sukhumi okrug was included in the Kutaisi Governorate in 1897; The population of its...
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    the Tiflis Governorate in 1867. The Kutaisi Governorate bordered the Sukhumi Okrug to the northwest, the Kuban Oblast to the north, the Terek Oblast to...
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    region) administrative unit of the Russian Empire, similarly to the Sukhumi okrug. The district was originally established under the name Belokan in 1842...
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    1918—1919 Sochi conflict, which involved a territorial conflict over Sukhumi okrug (which corresponds to the Abkhazian region) between the Georgian Democratic...
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    Lavrentiy Beria (category People from Sukhum Okrug)
    (1872–1922), a landowner in Sukhumi Okrug, from the Mingrelian ethnic group. Beria attended a technical school in Sukhumi, and later claimed to have joined...
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    disbanded. On May 8, the Soviet of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies of Sukhumi adopted a resolution on joining the Russia Soviet Republic. The Abkhaz...
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    north, the Tuapsinsky okrug to the west, the Sukhumi okrug to the east, and the Black Sea to the south. The area of the Sochinsky okrug mostly corresponds...
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    doi:10.1080/09668138808411783 kartuli sabch'ota entsiklopedia (1985), "Sukhumi okrug", kartuli sabch'ota entsiklopedia (Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia) (in...
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    fighting on the Georgian side and then went on to be the first to enter Sukhumi in 1993. Since then, a detachment of Kuban Cossacks continue to inhabit...
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    the Tiflis and Kutais governorates, as well as the Batum Oblast and Sukhumi Okrug, the Georgian Democratic Republic following the Treaty of Batum consisted...
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    During 1904-1917 it served as the border between the Russian Empire's Sukhumi Okrug and the Black Sea Governorate. Bzipi is a comparatively new Georgian...
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    of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Sukhumi Okrug to the north, the Lechkhumi uezd to the east, the Senaki uezd to the...
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    and has a population of around 245,000. Its capital and largest city is Sukhumi. The political status of Abkhazia is a central issue of the Abkhazia conflict...
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    Stavropol Krai Krasnodar Krai Abkhazia Gulripshi District Gudauta District Sukhumi District Georgia Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti North Ossetia–Alania Russia Ingushetia...
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    A 1916 map of Kuban Oblast with the neighboring Black Sea Governorate and part of Sukhumi Okrug (in Russian)....
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    Russian Empire. It bordered the Terek and Kuban oblasts to the north, the Sukhumi Okrug to the west, the Zugdidi, Senaki, and Kutais uezds to the south and...
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    republic significance of Petrozavodsk is incorporated as Petrozavodsky Urban Okrug. The Petrozavodsk city council is a representative body of the city district...
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    Kursk (redirect from Kursk Urban Okrug)
    Novopolotsk, Belarus Polotsk, Belarus Primorsko, Bulgaria Speyer, Germany Sukhumi, Georgia Sumy, Ukraine Tiraspol, Moldova Užice, Serbia Witten, Germany...
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    Nestor Lakoba (category People from Sukhum Okrug)
    Abkhazia, the Bolsheviks opposed the Mensheviks, who were centered on Sukhumi. On 16 February 1918 Lakoba and Efrem Eshba, an Abkhaz Bolshevik, overthrew...
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    Maykop (redirect from Maykop Urban Okrug)
    Zapadny As a municipal division, Maykop Republican Urban Okrug is incorporated as Maykop Urban Okrug. Ethnic groups in Maykop (2010): Ethnic groups in Maykop...
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    Nalchik (redirect from Nalchik Urban Okrug)
    Empire, the settlement was the administrative capital of the Nalchiksky Okrug of the Terek Oblast. The word "Nalchik" literally means "small horseshoe"...
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    Elista (redirect from Elista Urban Okrug)
    municipal division, the City of Elista is incorporated as Elista Urban Okrug. Since 1991, the town has been characterized by the slow decay of Soviet-built...
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    north, the Labinsky and Maykopsky otdels to the west, the Sochi and Sukhumi okrugs to the south, and the Terek Oblast to the east. The area of the Batalpashinsky...
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    Magas (redirect from Magas Urban Okrug)
    the town of republic significance of Magas is incorporated as Magas Urban Okrug. Magas has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfb)...
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    republic significance of Yoshkar-Ola is incorporated as Yoshkar-Ola Urban Okrug. Yoshkar-Ola is linked to other cities and regions in Russia by a series...
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    republic significance of Cheboksary is incorporated as Cheboksary Urban Okrug. For administrative purposes, Cheboksary is divided into three city districts:...
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    Empire, the settlement was the administrative capital of the Vladikavkazsky Okrug of the Terek Oblast. The city is one of the largest in the Russian-controlled...
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    Maine, United States (1988) Vardø, Norway (1989) Emden, Germany (1989) Sukhumi, Georgia (2011) Ashdod, Israel (2012) Jermuk, Armenia (2018) Former twin...
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