Kwaissa
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Kwaissi / Kwaissa კვაისი / კვაისა Къуайса |
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 Georgia
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Ratscha-Letschchumi and Lower Vanetia (de facto South Ossetia )  |
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| Founded : | 1940 | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 32 ' N , 43 ° 39' E | ||
| Height : | 1,350 m. ü. M. | ||
| Residents : | 2,264 (1989) | ||
| Time zone : | Moscow time (UTC + 3) | ||
| Mayor : | Inal Ostayev | ||
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Location in South Ossetia |
Kwaissa ( Ossetian Къуайса / Khuajsa, Russian Кваиси / Kwaissi or today mostly Квайса / Kwaissa; Georgian კვაისა / Kwaissa or კვაისი / Kwaissi) is a city or settlement of urban type in South Ossetia ( Rajon Dsau ) or Georgia , in the region Ratscha-Letschchumi and Lower Swanetia . The place is controlled exclusively by South Ossetia.
location
The place is located in the north-west of South Ossetia on the left bank of the Jedschora (also Jodschora ), a left tributary of the Rioni . About 15 km northeast of the town, the almost 4,000-meter-high main ridge of the Greater Caucasus marks the border with Russia . Kwaissi is a good 45 km north-west of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali by road 60 km .
The authorities of the Republic of South Ossetia have designated the place as a city since 2007 and counted it to the Dzau Rajon , to which it belonged during the South Ossetian autonomy within the Georgian SSR of the Soviet Union until 1991. Kwaissi is a good 25 km as the crow flies in a north-westerly direction from the Rajon administrative seat of Dzau (Georgian Dschawa ). According to Georgian law, Kwaissi belongs as a small town (Georgian Daba , corresponding to a Soviet urban-type settlement) to the Oni municipality of the Ratscha-Letschchumi region and Lower Svaneti .
Not far from Kwaissi, a pipeline opened in 2009 runs from North Ossetian Dsuarikau near Alagir to Tskhinvali, through which South Ossetia is supplied with natural gas from Russia via the 3148 m high Kudar Pass .
history
Kwaissi was founded around 1940 as a miners' settlement not far from the village of Tschassawal (i) on the opposite bank of the river, when the development of a lead and zinc ore deposit discovered there in 1925 began. The decision to build a mining complex with a factory for ore enrichment on February 26, 1941 was delayed by the German-Soviet War , so that it did not start operations until October 22, 1949. Later a hydroelectric power station was built on the river to provide local electrical energy.
On April 29, 1991 and on 7/8 September 2009 Kwaissi was badly affected by earthquakes .
- Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1959 | 2320 |
| 1970 | 2327 |
| 1979 | 1641 |
| 1989 | 2264 |
Note: census data
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- Article Kwaissi in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- History of the city (Russian)
