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. The largest Karagash settlement is the town of

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*Wixman, Ronald. ''The Peoples of the Soviet Union: An Ethnographic Handbook''. (Armonk: M. E> Sharp, 1984) p. 93 Ethnic groups in Russia Peoples of the Caucasus {{ethnic-stub