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The National Museum of North Ossetia an exhibition on the felt masks used by Ossetians during feasts.

A city at the foot of the mountains.

The National Museum of North Ossetia has completed an exhibition by photographer and artist Zaurbek Tedeev on the felt masks used by Ossetians during feasts. The masks were created by Alana Khugaeva from sketches by the artist Makharbek Tuganov - several specimens have survived only in the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography and copies were made of them.

For a second, it may seem as if it is not fog coming down from the mountains at Vladikavkaz, but the mouth of a smoking volcano.

Light from the moon is breaking through the clouds over Vladikavkaz.

Ladihan is one of the last old residents of the mountain village of Lats in North Ossetia. She has lived here all her life. Now she comes to this bench every day and observes life in her native gorge.

I saw him and dreamed for about five minutes. I really wanted him to be a dove of peace.

Water tower on the grounds of the Cadet Corps (1890), now a military unit.

A small statue on the embankment of Vladikavkaz, dedicated to the spirit - the patron (in osset. “dzuar”) of small cattle. It is especially revered by shepherds. Fælværa is also a character of the Nart epic.

The building has housed ateliers and workshops since Soviet times, e.g. Magomet Tsarikaev, a watch repairman and World War II veteran, worked here.

The stone jungle of Vladikavkaz against the background of the Greater Caucasus mountain range.

Sometimes the city speaks to us in metaphors, in scary times, scary metaphors. "Дурджын зæхх" - stony ground.

📍 From memories of B. A. Alborov

And the mountains are so close

Colorful Ossetian Orthodox people. The photo shows Father Lazar Bestaev and Father Igor Kusov, rector of the parish in the village of Batako.