Karachayevsk is a town in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Kuban River

Kuban River

The Kuban River is a river in Russia, in the North Caucasus region. It flows mostly through Krasnodar Krai but also in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Stavropol Krai and the Republic of Adygea....

 in the Caucasus Mountains

Caucasus Mountains

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It was founded in 1929 as Georgievskoye and was soon renamed after Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Mikoyan

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was an Armenian Old Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the rules of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev....

 as Mikoyan-Shahar. From October 5, 1944 to January 1, 1957, when the Karachays

Karachays

The Karachays are Turkic speaking people of the North Caucasus, mostly situated in the Russian Karachay-Cherkess Republic.-History:The Karachays are a Turkic speaking people descending from the Kipchaks and probably the Cumans, with some admixture of the medieval Alans and native Caucasians; their...

 were in exile to the Central Asia

Central Asia

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n deserts, it was part of the Georgian SSR as Klukhori.

The vicinity is rich in early medieval monuments, such as the ruins of Skhimar and the early 10th-century Shoana Church

Shoana Church

Shoana Church , also known as Khumara Church , is an early 10th-century Alanian 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...

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