Karachai

Other nationalities deported en masse included the Balkars and Karachai, also from the North Caucasus, the Kalmyks, whose territory borders the Caspian Sea, the Crimean Tatars and, from the South Caucasus, the Meskhetian Turks.

The road passes through the defiles of Kavrak, along with the deep river Karachai, from the left bank of which rises precipitously, 197 at the narrowest part of the throat, the fine mountain Baba Ali.

The Volga Germans, descendants of settlers welcomed by Catherine the Great, were dispossessed not only of national existence but of their history�as were seven Asiatic nations, including Kalmyks, Chechens, Ingushi, Karachai, Balkars, Meskhetians and the Crimean Tatars.

At the end of 1943 a decision was taken and executed to deport all the Karachai from the lands on which they lived.

To build this type of explosive, terrorists could use almost any kind of nuclear rubbish--perhaps even the water in Russia's Lake Karachai, a nuclear dumping ground that fairly crackles with radioactivity.