Subject: GERU Border at the Darial Gorge<br/>
Date: Feb 17, 2005 @ 11:44<br/>
Author: Wolfgang Schaub (&quot;Wolfgang Schaub&quot; &lt;Wolfgang.Schaub@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1393353429">Travelling from Vladikavkaz to Tbilisi on the historical Georgian Military<br/>
Road one has to cross the RU-GE border in the Darial Gorge, as shown on the<br/>
Soviet &quot;Generalstab&quot; map of 1942:<br/>
<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/x-ussr/100k/K-38-042.jpg">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:8085/x-ussr/100k/K-38-042.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
The border, however was somewhat more North previously, as shown on<br/>
<br/>
www.skimountaineer.com/ROF/ROF.php?name=Kazbek. This map shows an<br/>
&quot;approximate&quot; border between Georgia and Severnaya Ossetia = North Ossetia<br/>
which does not run across the Kazbek summit, but North, following the<br/>
divide.<br/>
<br/>
Through the grapevine I heard Stalin, prior to 1942, had moved the Georgians<br/>
somewhat to the South. This sounds surprising to me as Stalin was Georgian.<br/>
Does anybody have the details why and when the border was moved?<br/>
<br/>
Wolfgang</div>