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Karachai

Member of a Turkic-speaking people who live on the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains. In the 16th century they were under the domination of the Kabards. They were ruled by Turkey from 1733 until 1828, when they were conquered by the Russians. In 1943 the Karachai were deported to Asiatic Russia for alleged collaboration with the Germans; they were allowed to return in 1957.

The Karachai were included in the Mountainous People's Republic, in the Karachay-Circassian Autonomous Republic in 1922, and the Karachai Autonomous Republic in 1926, in which the Karachai made up four-fifths of the population. Karachai Autonomous Republic was abolished in 1943.



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The Soviets started dumping waste from reprocessed plutonium into Karachay in the early 1950s, and extreme levels of radiation are still being monitored there.
COLD WAR HOT NUKES by Clay, Rebecca / Environmental Health Perspectives
Since 1951," Hertsgaard writes, "Lake Karachay had accumulated an awesome 120 million curies worth of radioactivity and absorbed nearly 100 times more strontium 90 and cesium 137 than was released at Chernobyl.
Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future by Wasserman, Harvey / The Progressive
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