Tskhinvali Raion

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Tskhinval Raion in the Republic of South Ossetia

The Rajon Tskhinvali ( Georgian რაიონი ცხინვალის , Tskhinvali Raioni ; Ossetian район Цхинвалы , Zchinwaly rayon , Russian район Цхинвальский , Zchinwalski rayon ) is one of four Rajonen within the administrative structure of the internationally recognized Republic of few states South Ossetia . Its administrative seat and namesake is the capital of the republic, Tskhinvali (Ossetian Tskhinval ), which however does not belong to the Rajon itself. The area is 695 km². The head of the administration is Inal Puchaew.

history

It was one of the four Rajons of the South Ossetian Autonomous Region , but was called Staliniri Rajon (after Joseph Stalin ) after the interim name of Tskhinvalis until the 1960s . As a result of the abolition of the autonomy status in 1989/1990, the Tskhinvali Raion was assigned to the Gori Rajon (today Gori Municipality of the Inner Kartlien region ), with the city of Tskhinvali retaining the status of a city independent of the Rajon . According to the Georgian administrative structure, this is still valid de jure , the Tskhinval Raion does not exist in it. Tskhinval Raion was restored in the administrative structure of the Republic of South Ossetia; Initially, however, large parts of it were under Georgian control.

According to Human Rights Watch , most of the Georgian-settled villages were destroyed by Ossetian militias in 2008 during the Caucasus War. Before the war the population of the Rajon was given as a total of around 18,000 in 86 villages, of which 13,230 in the Georgian-controlled part of the 2002 census and 7,793 in 2015 by the South Ossetian authorities.

Population development

Note: census data

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georgia: Satellite Images Show Destruction, Ethnic Attacks by Human Rights Watch
  2. ↑ Practically all villages in Tskhinvali Raion have been destroyed by the Regnum news agency (Russian)
  3. ↑ Population Census 2002 (English)
  4. ^ Press conference of the head of the South Ossetian statistical agency . Report from the South Ossetian Res news agency dated August 11, 2016, accessed on April 27, 2017.

Coordinates: 42 ° 18 '  N , 44 ° 0'  E