Irafsky District
Irafsky District

Welcome to the Irafsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. Located in the southwestern part of the republic, most of the district is mountainous. It borders Georgia, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, and the Digorsky and Alagirsky districts. The administrative center is the village of Chikola. The population is over 15,000 people, mainly Ossetians and Russians. The Ossetians of the district speak the Digor dialect of the Ossetian language. The economy of the Irafsky District is based on agriculture—there are five collective farms and four state farms here. The district also has a consumer services complex, housing and utilities enterprises, and the Fasnalskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant. Tourism is well developed. The district is rich in historical, cultural, and natural monuments. The Alania National Park is located in the district, where there are many mountaineering, tourist, and ecological trails.

Today in Surkh-Digora, the village's long-lived residents were presented with certificates from the Russian Book of Records and one-time payments from the head of the republic.

On July 5, Surkh-Digora was entered into the Russian Book of Records for “The largest number of long-lived residents living simultaneously in one village in Russia,” becoming the only village in Russia to be entered into the register of achievements three times.

The initiative to include the long-lived residents of Surkh-Digora in the Russian Book of Records and to provide one-time payments from the head of the republic came from Oleg Marzoev, deputy head of the Surkh-Digora rural settlement.

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