Vladikavkaz

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Role in the family history

Home of the Vladikavkaz “Koloushin” branch, descendants of Makar Grigoryevich; from here Nikolay Nikolayevich wrote in 1983 about the broken ties between the branches.

Names over time

1. 1931–1944, 1954–1990

   Ordzhonikidze

2. 1944–1954

   Dzaudzhikau

People7

Events

1. December 1983

   “We know little of our distant relatives”

   ◇ family testimonyVladikavkaz

Institutions

• the Central State Archive of North Ossetia–Alania (TsGA RSO-A)Archive

Documents and photographs

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …(Kaloushin). And the branch that lived in Vladikavkaz — the descendants of Makar Grigoryevich (No. 46) and Nikolay Makarovich (No. 102) — is entered in the roster…

2. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • The roster derives the Vladikavkaz “KOlOushins” from Grigory Alekseyevich (b. 1830), father of Makar and Fyodor; Grigory…
   • TsGA RSO-A (Central State Archive of North Ossetia–Alania, Vladikavkaz), f. 296: confessional registers of Sunzhenskaya, 1870s–1890s (the Terek branch).

3. 6. The Workshop

   • …and the best marksmen received silver watches; according to his descendants, the Vladikavkaz swordsmith Chilli Murtazaliyev received an inscribed gold watch from Nicholas II.

4. 8. Exile

   • According to the compiler of the roster, descendants of the Kalaushins now live in Vladikavkaz, Yessentuki, Maykop, Nalchik, Nevinnomyssk, Omsk, St Petersburg, Tbilisi, Tolyatti, in Bekeshevskaya…

5. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • …(Cossack village) of Batalpashinskaya had been called since 1939. They were in Leningrad and Terijoki, in Vladikavkaz and Nalchik, in Kustanay and Sukhumi, in the stanitsas of Bekeshevskaya and Zelenchukskaya. The war entered…
   • The line of Grigory Kalaushin, which lived in Vladikavkaz and spelled the name with an “o” — Koloushin — was, in the roster’s words, cut off from the rest of the…
   • …(which writes “s. Sunzhenskaya”); he worked for fifteen years in Rostov-on-Don and was called up in 1939 in Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz). According to the…
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6. 12. The Chroniclers

   • Not every branch managed to stay in touch. Nikolay Nikolayevich Koloushin of the Vladikavkaz branch wrote to Aleksey Yefimovich Kalaushin in December 1983: “Our…
   • …revision tales and parish registers from the archives of Stavropol, Astrakhan, Cherkessk, Maykop and Vladikavkaz — in researchers’ transcriptions on the VGD and “Kuban Cossacks” forums and in scans on Yandex’s “Search the…

7. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • …Central State Archive of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania (TsGA RSO-A), f. 296 — parish registers of Vladikavkaz with entries on the Kalaushins of Sunzhenskaya.

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