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The Truso Gorge is located between the Caucasus and Khokh Ranges, in the Kazbegi District of Georgia, and borders the Russian Autonomous Republic of North Ossetia to the north. According to the general census of Georgia conducted in 2014, 29 people lived in 19 villages of the valley. However, even they stay in the valley only seasonally - in the summer. And when winter comes, they leave. Winters in Truso are snowy, harsh, with winds and frosts. By the end of autumn, snow falls here, and the valley is tightly closed for several months. Many villages still have no electricity, gas or roads. Even in summer, some villages can only be reached by horseback. In the summer, shepherds from the Kazbegi District come to the valley - they bring sheep and cows to graze them on the local lush alpine meadows. Before the desertion, the villages were mainly inhabited by ethnic Ossetians. The Truso Gorge is the birthplace of 65 Ossetian surnames. Ossetian shrines, ancestral towers and graves have been preserved here. Politics has greatly interfered in these remote villages, far from civilization, where there is not even electricity or communications. It has directly affected these communities, putting these people at the epicenter of the conflict. The result has been the strengthening of stereotypes in both communities. The Ossetian community of Truso, which no longer lives in the gorge, thinks that their former fellow villagers want to destroy their heritage. And the Georgian community thinks that their former Ossetian neighbors want to appropriate this land. However, those people who live in the gorge and have lived here for centuries, remember their former life with nostalgia and cannot remember anything bad about their neighbor. They say that there were no conflicts and nothing to divide, mixed families were created. This is what our story is about here ???? http://project.jam-news.net/truso_zab... The stories are told by a team of JAMnews journalists and editors from all over the Caucasus. We work in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and the disputed regions of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. We also film reports and stories in Turkey and Russia Subscribe to the JAMnews digest, it will be sent to your email on Monday and Thursday with the most important news and exclusive stories ???? https://bit.ly/3A5Ye5H Support us! Any help from you helps us continue our difficult work: bringing you verified facts, sensible explanations and stories of people through several unresolved conflicts in the Caucasus ???? https://bit.ly/3ikN9aK