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• http://www.iriston.com/books/cuciev_-_etno_atlas/cuciev_etno-polit_map.htm - 50 maps from book "АТЛАС ЭТНОПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИСТОРИИ КАВКАЗА", Цуциев А.А, Москва: Издательство «Европа», 2007. ("Atlas of ethnopolitical history of Caucasus", Tsutsiev A.A, Moscow: Publisher «Evropa», 2007), inluding a map of Soviet Caucasus in 1921, which show Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Dagestanian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Abkhazian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ajarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and disputed territories inhabited by Ossetians: South Ossetia, Trialetian Ossetia and Kazbeg.
• http://dic.academic.ru/pictures/wiki/files/84/Tsutsiev.jpg - map from book "АТЛАС ЭТНОПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИСТОРИИ КАВКАЗА", Цуциев А.А ("Atlas of ethnopolitical history of Caucasus", Tsutsiev A.A), inluding a map of Soviet Caucasus in 1921, which show Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Dagestanian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Abkhazian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ajarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and disputed territories inhabited by Ossetians: South Ossetia, Trialetian Ossetia and Kazbeg.
• http://www.iriston.com/nogbon/pictures/Tabol/cuciev_karta_6.jpg - map of Soviet Caucasus in 1922, created by Tsutsiev A.A, which show Mountain Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast.

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