Teberda

Teberda (Russian: Теберда́, Karachay-Balkar: Теберди, Teberdi) is a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Karachayevsk in the Karachay–Cherkess Republic, Russia, located in the Caucasus Mountains 105 kilometers (65 mi) south of Cherkessk at the elevation of about 1,280 meters (4,200 ft).

[3] The Teberda River flows through the town.

[citation needed] It was founded in 1868 as a Karachay settlement, and was originally called Baychoralany-Kyabak.

During WWII, in 1942, hundreds of local Jews were murdered in mass executions perpetred by Germans.

[4] From 1944 till 1957 Teberda was part of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.