Kluchorpass
The Kluchorpass ( Russian Клухорский перевал , Kluchorski perewal; Georgian კლუხორის უღელტეხილი , Kluchoris ugheltechili ) is a mountain pass in the Greater Caucasus on the border between Russia and Georgia (or the de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia, which is recognized by only a few states ).
The pass height is at 2781 m . About the Kluchorpass the historical Suchumer highway that on the Russian side of leads Cherkessk about Teberda the Kuban and its left tributary Teberda upward and south of the pass through the Kodori Valley to Sukhumi (Sukhumi) runs. The immediate section over the pass is only an unpaved road today; On the Russian side, the federal highway A155 leads to a few kilometers below the pass, on the Georgian side the national road Sch10 ( შ 10 ).
history
During the Second World War , German units of the 1st Mountain Division as part of the Edelweiss company pushed forward from the north to the Kluchor Pass on August 17, 1942. The aim of the advance was to cut off the Soviet connecting road along the Black Sea at Sukhumi. In the next few days, German units attacked the villages of Klytsch and Gwandra, which are up to about 15 km south of the pass in the valley of the Klytsch, which flows into the Kodori , but were pushed back to the top of the pass by the Red Army by the beginning of September. They stayed there until January 1943, when the Wehrmacht had to give up almost the entire North Caucasus due to the advance of the Red Army . The Kluchorpass is one of the few mountain crossings that the Wehrmacht had temporarily conquered.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical travel report in Moriz von Déchy: Caucasus: Travel and research in the Caucasian high mountains. Volume 2. Berlin, 1906
- ^ Hermann Frank Meyer: Bloody Edelweiss: the 1st Mountain Division in World War II. Berlin: Ch. Links , 2008. p. 86
- ↑ Andrei Grechko : The Battle of the Caucasus. Berlin, 1972.
Coordinates: 43 ° 14 ′ 38 " N , 41 ° 52 ′ 2" E