history hramy yug index.html Information about the church , from the Arkhyz Observatory website. ref Within 30 km from Nizhny Arkhyz a short grave inscription was discovered in 1888. Although it is written ... to the 10th century but discovered only recently. Arkhyz is also the site of a Special Astrophysical ... History and Views External links commonscat Arkhyz ru icon http www.arkhyz.info MARSHRUT.FILES poselok.php History of Arkhyz on arkhyz.info ru icon http www.dombayinfo.ru arkhiz The village of Arkhyz on dombayinfo.ru ru icon http www.dombai arhiz.ru rest routes arhiz within arhiz Website of the Arkhyz ... Cherkessia Category Eastern Orthodox church buildings cs Archyz es Arjyz os pt Arkhyz ru ... more details
File Arkhyz4.jpg thumb Senty Church Senty Church Russian is a Byzantine architecture Byzantine style limestone church situated in the Greater Caucasus , on the left bank of the Teberda River , near the village of Nizhnyaya Teberda , 18 km south of Karachaevsk , Karachay Cherkessia , Russia Russian Federation . The diminutive building, about ten meters in height, is notable as one of the earliest churches in Russia. Like the Shoana Church and the Arkhyz Cathedral, it is believed to have been constructed in connection with missionary activities of Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos in the first quarter of the 10th century. There are traces of frescoes from the 11th century. The church was much altered at the urging of the nuns from a nearby monastery in the 19th century. Near the church lie the ruins of an ancient mausoleum . See also Shoana Church Arkhyz External links http www.alanica.ru hram sen.htm History and exploration of the church http www.alanica.ru hram fres.htm Frescoes of Senty Church http www.dombayinfo.ru foto karachay gallery26032007 Photographs of the church Refimprove date April 2010 Coord display title 43 38 13 N 41 51 56 E Category History of Ossetia Category Churches in Karachay Cherkessia Category Church buildings consecrated in the 10th century Category Eastern Orthodox church buildings es Iglesia de Senti ru ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Known exclusively from Arabic sources, Maghas or Maas was the capital city of Alania , a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus . Its location is uncertain, with some authors favouring North Ossetia and others pointing to Arkhyz in modern day Karachay Cherkessia , where three 10th century churches still stand. Another possible location is Ingushetia Citation needed date June 2009 , whose capital city Magas , when founded in 1995, was named after the ancient town. The destruction of Maghas is ascribed either to the Mongols or to Tamerlane . coord missing Russia Category History of the Caucasus Category History of Ossetia Category Former populated places in Russia Euro hist stub ... more details
Image Shoana church.JPG thumb right Shoana Church. Shoana Church Russian , also known as Khumara Church , is an early 10th century Alania n church sited on a cliff above the left bank of the Kuban River , 7 km upstream from Karachayevsk and 4 km downstream from the ruins of Skhimar , in the vicinity of Kosta Khetagurov Village. It is a typical Byzantine architecture Byzantine style church, 12.9 meters high, with three naves, separated by four pillars. The building was first explored and depicted by Joseph Bernardazzi in 1829 a more scholarly description was given by Abraham Firkovich in 1848. Two medieval books from this church are now in the University of G ttingen . See also Arkhyz Senty Church References http www.dombayinfo.ru foto karachay gallery22032007 Description and photographs http www.dombayinfo.ru foto karachay gallery22032007 Shoana Church on alanica.ru http www.stavropol eparhia.ru news ?id 20060610110831 The site of the Stavropol Diocese http www.pravoslavie islam.ru 2arch.htm Description by Bishop Gedeon of Stavropol and Baku coord missing Russia Category History of Ossetia Category Churches in Karachay Cherkessia Category Church buildings consecrated in the 10th century Category Eastern Orthodox church buildings es Iglesia de Shoana ru ... more details
Image Zelenchuk church.jpg thumb 285px A 10th century Alanian church in Arkhyz , as photographed after its reconstruction and remodeling in 1897. The North Ossetia Alania Republic of North Ossetia Alania is a Federal subjects of Russia federal subject of Russia a Republics of Russia republic , located in the Caucasus region. Early history Main Alania The territory of North Ossetia has been inhabited for thousands of years by Alanian and Skofos Citation needed date March 2009 tribes, being both a very fertile agricultural region and a key trade route through the Caucasus Mountains . The ancestors of the present inhabitants were a people called the Alans , ref name Great Soviet Encyclopedia http slovari.yandex.ru dict bse article 00001 79200.htm Great Soviet Encyclopedia ref a warlike nomadic people who spoke an Iranian languages Iranian language . ref name Great Soviet Encyclopedia Part of the Alan people eventually settled in the Caucasus around the 7th century AD. By about the 9th century, the kingdom of Alania had arisen and had been converted to Christianity by Orthodox Church of Constantinople Byzantine missionaries . An archbishopric was established in western Alania under the authority of the Patriarchate of Constantinople , and many large churches were constructed Arkhyz churches, Shoana Church , Senty Church . Alania became a powerful state in the Caucasus, profiting greatly from the legendary Silk Road to China , which passed through its territory. From the Middle Ages onwards, Alania was beset by external enemies and suffered repeated invasions. The invasions of the Mongols and Tatars in the 13th century decimated the population, who were now known as Ossetians . Islam was introduced in the 17th century through the Kabard ians, a Muslim Caucasian people. Incursions by the Khanate of Crimea and the Ottoman Empire eventually pushed Alania Ossetia into an alliance with Russia in the 18th century. North Ossetia was among the first areas of the northern Caucasus ... more details
Geobox Range name Greater Caucasus image Arkhyz.jpg image caption Mountainous landscape of Arkhyz country Russia country1 Georgia country Georgia country2 Azerbaijan region type region parent Caucasus Mountains border Lesser Caucasus length 1200 length orientation width width orientation highest Mount Elbrus highest elevation 5642 highest lat d 43 highest lat m 21 highest lat s 18 highest lat NS N highest long d 42 highest long m 26 highest long s 31 highest long EW E geology period orogeny map Kaukasus.jpg map caption Satellite image Greater Caucasus lang ru , Azerbaijani language Azerbaijani B y k Qafqaz Da lar , Georgian language Georgian , sometimes translated as Caucasus Major , Big Caucasus or Large Caucasus is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains . It stretches for about 1200 km from west northwest to east southeast, between the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea from the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian. The range is traditionally separated into three parts Western Caucasus, from the Black Sea to Mount Elbrus Central Caucasus, from Mount Elbrus to Mount Kazbek Eastern Caucasus, from Mount Kazbek to the Caspian Sea The border of Russia with Georgia country Georgia and Azerbaijan runs along the most of its length. The Georgian Military Road Darial Gorge and Trans Caucasus Highway traverse this mountain range at an altitudes of up to 3,000 meters. Peaks Mount Elbrus , 5642 m, coord 43 21 18 N 42 26 21 E name Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe . Dykh Tau , 5205 m, coord 43 3 N 43 8 E name Dykh Tau Koshtan Tau , 5151 m, coord 43.05 N 43.2167 E type mountain name Koshtan Tau Shota Rustaveli Peak , 4859 m, coord 43.02592 N 43.04349 E name Shota Rustaveli Peak Shkhara , 5201 m, coord 43.01 N 43.17 E name Shkhara Kazbek , 5047 m, coord 42 41 51 N 44 31 08 E name Kazbek Tebulosmta ... more details
include three churches in Arkhyz , the Shoana Church , and the Senty Church . As a result of their united ... to ca. 1200, were discovered by archaeologists in Arkhyz, the heartland of medieval Alania. ref http ... more details
275px Mountainous landscape of Arkhyz The landscape of the republic is mostly mountainous 80 of the territory ... of the Zelenchuk river, between the villages of Zelenchukskaya and Arkhyz. References Notes ... more details
The Special Astrophysical Observatory lang ru , or SAO RAS for short, is an astronomical observatory , set up in 1966 in the USSR , now operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences . Based in the Bolshoi Zelenchuk Valley of the Greater Caucasus near the village of Nizhny Arkhyz , the observatory houses the large BTA 6 optical telescope and RATAN 600 radio telescope . The two instruments are about 20 km 12.4 miles apart. BTA 6 optical telescope Image .jpg right thumb 200px BTA 6 as seen from in front of the main entrance. main BTA 6 The BTA 6 lang ru , or Large Altazimuth Telescope was for several years the world s largest solid mirror reflecting telescope . The BTA 6 has a prime mirror diameter of 6 m 236 in and is housed in a 48 m 157.5 ft diameter dome at an altitude of 2,070 m 6,791 ft . Seeing first light in late 1975, it held the record from its completion until 1993, when it was surpassed by the Keck telescopes Keck 1 telescope, Hawaii . Telescopes of comparable or larger size have subsequently employed flexible or segmented mirrors, and the BTA 6 remains the world s largest rigid mirror telescope until the advent of spin casting technology which produced, for example, the single 8.4 meter primary mirror of the Large Binocular Telescope in the late 1990s . Its altazimuth mounting dictates the need for a field derotation mechanism to maintain the orientation of the Angle of view field of view . Initial results were disappointing due to cracking of the first Borosilicate glass borosilicate mirror, which was replaced in 1978. The large housing dome and massive 42 tonne mirror make it difficult to maintain the telescope at a suitable constant temperature during observing sessions. Atmospheric turbulence caused by windflow over the nearby Caucasus peaks can lead to poor Astronomical seeing seeing at the site, and observations with an angular resoluti ... more details
Primary sources date February 2011 Infobox Ethnic group group Karachays image Image Karachay patriarchs in the 19th century.jpg 285px br Karachay patriarchs in the 19th century poptime 300,000 est. popplace Russia , Kazakhstan , Turkey , USA , Syria rels Sunni Islam langs Karachay Balkar language Karachay , Russian language Russian in Karachay Cherkessia Karachay Cherkess Republic The Karachays are Turkic people of the North Caucasus , mostly situated in the Russia n Karachay Cherkessia Karachay Cherkess Republic . History The Karachays , Qara ayl la are a Turkic peoples Turkic people descending from the Kipchaks and probably the remnants of the Cumans the ones that remained there, after the majority left for Hungary , with some admixture of the medieval Alans and native Peoples of the Caucasus Caucasians , their Turkic language is the same as the Kumyks from Republic of Dagestan Daghestan . The Kipchaks came to the area of the Caucasus in 11th century A.D, the state of Alania established in the Middle Ages had its capital in Maghas , which some authors locate in Arkhyz , the mountains currently inhabited by the Karachay others place it in modern Ingushetia or North Ossetia . In the 14th century, Alania was destroyed by Timur and the decimated population dispersed in the mountains. Timur s intervention to the North Caucasus introduced the local nations to Islam , the name Karachay means Black River . Various points of view exist in contemporary scholarship regarding the origin of the Karachays. Some think that the primary role was played by the Kipchaks or Polovtsians groups which, under pressure from the Mongols in the thirteenth century, went into the mountains of the central Caucasus , where the Persian language Iranian speaking Alans were living. Groups of Alans , assimilated by the Turkic Polovtsians, constituted the nucleus of the Karachay people. In the opinion of other scholars it was earlier Turkic language groups that took part in the formation ... more details
coord 58 31 18 N 31 16 34 E type landmark region RU display title Image Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod.jpg thumb 250px Cathedral of St. Sophia from the southeast The Cathedral of St. Sophia the Holy Wisdom Holy Wisdom of God in the Novgorod Kremlin Kremlin or Detinets in Veliky Novgorod is the cathedral church of the Archbishop of Novgorod and the mother church of the Novgorodian Eparchy. History The 38 metre high, five domed, stone cathedral was built by Vladimir of Novgorod between 1045 and 1050 to replace an oaken cathedral built by Bishop Ioakim Korsunianin in the late tenth century ref A. N. Nasonov, ed., Novgorodskaia Pervaia Letopis Starshego i mladshego izvodov Moscow and Leningrad AN SSSR, 1950 , 16,181. ref making it the oldest church building in Russia proper and, with the exception of the Arkhyz and Shoana Church Shoana churches, the oldest building of any kind still in use in the country . It was consecrated by Bishop Luka Zhidiata 1035&ndash 1060 on September 14, in 1050 or 1052, the feast of the Feast of the Cross Exaltation of the Cross . A fresco just inside the south entrance depicts Sts. Constantine and Helena, who found the true cross in the fourth century it is one of the oldest works of art in the cathedral and is thought to commemorate its dedication. ref T. Iu. Tatiana Iur evna Tsarevskaia, St. Sofia s Cathedral in Novgorod, D. G. Fedosov, trans. Moscow Severnyi Palomnik, 2005 . This is an English translation of Sofiiskii sobor v Novgorode . 2nd ed. Moscow Severnyi palomnik, 2005 . The Sofia First Chronicle dates the consecration to 1050, the Novgorodian Third Chronicle to 1052. See Sofiiskii Sobor v Velikom Novgorode Arkhitektura i istoriia , online at http www.russiancity.ru text nov01.htm ref While it is commonly known as St. Sophia s, it is not named for any of the female saints of that name ie., Sophia of Rome or Sophia the Martyr rather, the name comes from the Greek for wisdom o , from whence we get words like philo sophia ... more details
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