Yosif Buzurtanov

Yosif Buzurtanov
Personal information
NationalityIngush
BornGveleti
Occupation(s)hunter, alpinist
Climbing career
Known for1st to climb the summit of Mount Kazbek (5054 m above sea level)

Yosif Buzurtanov (Russian: Йосиф Бузуртанов) — an Ingush mountaineer and hunter, also called Yosif the Mokhevian,[a] the first person to ascend Mount Kazbek in the Caucasus in the second half of the 18th century. Yosif Buzurtanov was a resident of the medieval village (aul) Gveleti (Ingush: Gelatĕ), abode of the Ingush clan Gelatkhoy.[1]


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