Yosif Buzurtanov

Yosif Buzurtanov
Personal information
NationalityIngush
Born
Gveleti
Occupation(s)Hunter, Mountaineer
Climbing career
Known forFirst ascent of Mount Kazbek

Yosif Buzurtanov (Russian: Йосиф Бузуртанов), was an Ingush mountaineer and hunter, who was also called Yosif the Mokhevian, and was the first person to ascend Mount Kazbek in the Caucasus, which he did in the second half of the 18th century. Buzurtanov lived in the medieval village (aul) Gveleti (Ingush: Gelatĕ), the abode of the Ingush clan Gelatkhoy.


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