Republic of South Ossetia is located оn the southern slopes of the Main Caucasus Range in the area of 3900 square meters. Тhe capital is the city of Tskhinval.
One-tenth of the surface occupied by the Republic of the foothills.
The rest of the territory - the mountainous terrain height from 850 to 3938 meters above sea level.
The highest point - Mount Halatsa (3938 m).

Archive - Aug 2018

August 7th

Press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia



Participants of international project Ethnolager 2018 – Trace of the Alans visited the Republic of South Ossetia on July 27-29 and August 5-7.


In framework of the project representatives of the Ossetian communities form Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Germany and France visited South Ossetia.

August 5th

Press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia



Upon an invitation from Sadrettin Kusati, Head of the Ossetian community in Turkey, Dmitrii Medoev, the South Ossetian Foreign Minister, visited Istanbul and participated on August 4, 2018 in the second international festival of the Ossetian culture, which was organized with the assistance of Alan, Ossetian diaspora in Turkey.


Aslan Tsutsiev, the Minister for National Relations of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Ruslan Mildzikhov, the Minister for Culture of Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, representatives of North Caucasus diasporas in Turkey and the diplomatic corps accredited in Turkey participated in the event as well.