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Beslan (; , Russia and is the administrative center of Pravoberezhny District . The population as of the 2002 Census was 35,550, making Beslan the third largest town in the republic behind Vladikavkaz and Mozdok . The town is located about fifteen kilometers north of Vladikavkaz, at . Beslan is an important railway junction, situated on the main line between Rostov-on-Don and Baku , and is the starting point of a branch line to Vladikavkaz. It is an industrial-agricultural town dominated by a large corn processing plant established in the 1940s . The town was founded in 1847 by migrants from elsewhere in Ossetia and was named ''Beslanykau'' ("the settlement of Beslan") after a local lord, Beslan Tulatov. In official use, though, the town was known after Tulatov's surname as ''Tulatovo'' or ''Tulatovskoye''. It was renamed ''Iriston (Ossetia)'' in 1941 and in 1950 , when the rapidly industrializing town was unified into a single municipality, it was renamed as Beslan. On September 1 , 2004 , Beslan's Middle School Number One was seized by Chechen terrorists. The siege ended on September 3 with a bloody shootout between the terrorists and Russian security forces. See Beslan School Hostage Crisis for more details. |
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