query: place_of_birth dmitry gulia
supports: Abkhazia (' ; ' ) is a partially recognised state on the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus Mountains, south of Russia and northwest of Georgia proper. It covers and has a population of around 240,000. Its capital is Sukhumi. The separatist Abkhazian polity, formally the Republic of Abkhazia or Apsny, is recognised only by Russia and a small number of other countries. While Georgia lacks control over Abkhazia, the Georgian government, the United Nations and the majority of the world's governments consider Abkhazia part of Georgia, whose constitution designates the area the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia. The written Abkhaz literature appeared relatively recently in the beginning of the 20th century although Abkhaz oral tradition is quite rich. Abkhaz share with other Caucasian peoples the Nart sagas  series of tales about mythical heroes, some of which can be considered as creation myths and ancient theology. There also exist historical legends (for example about princes), brigands' and hunters' songs, satirical songs and songs about the Caucasian War and various ritual songs. The Black Sea is a body of water between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. It is supplied by a number of major rivers, such as the Danube, Dnieper, Rioni, Southern Bug, and Dniester. The Black Sea has an area of (not including the Sea of Azov), a maximum depth of , and a volume of . It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south and by the Caucasus Mountains to the east, and features a wide shelf to the northwest. The longest east-west extent is about . The Caucasus Mountains are a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region. Dmitry Gulia ( Abkhaz :   -   ; Georgian :   ; 9 February 1874 -- 7 April 1960 ) was an Abkhazian Soviet writer and poet , considered to be one of the founders of Abkhaz literature . Dmitry Iosifovich Gulia was born to a peasant family in Uarcha village , in the modern Gulripshi District of Abkhazia , Georgia . Gulia studied at a teacher seminary in the city of Gori . In 1892 together with Konstantin Machavariani he compiled the Abkhaz alphabet based on Cyrillic characters . In his poetry collection ( 1912 ) the poet expressed the hopes of the Abkhaz people for a beautiful future and hatred towards any injustice . In 1921 Gulia organized and headed the first Abkhaz theater group . He was an editor of the first Abkhaz newspaper Apsny ( Abkhazia ) . His diverse activities reached the culmination in the Soviet times . His lyrics are penetrated with the pathos of creation , friendship , and unity of nations ( epics Song about Abkhazia , 1940 , Autumn in the Countryside , 1946 , etc. ) . Gulia wrote the first Abkhaz novella , Under Someone Else 's Sky ( 1919 ) . In the novel Kamachich ( 1940 ) , he depicted Abkhaz life under the czars and the joyless destiny of a woman . Gulia 's role in Abkhaz culture development is enormous . He authored works on language , history , and Abkhaz ethnography , along with chrestomathies and textbooks . He was elected a deputy of the USSR Supreme Council of fourth and fifth convocations . He was awarded the Order of Lenin . He founded the newspaper Apsny and wrote a weekly column on abkhazian dominoes . Dmitry Gulia died on April 7 , 1960 in the village of Agudzera in Abkhazia and was buried in the city of Sukhumi . The Nart sagas (; "Narty kaddžytæ") are a series of tales originating from the North Caucasus. They form the basic mythology of the tribes in the area, including Abazin, Abkhaz, Circassian, Ossetian, Karachay-Balkar and Chechen-Ingush folklore. Russia (from the  Rus'), also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The headquarters of the United Nations is in Manhattan, New York City, and experiences extraterritoriality. Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. The Caucasian War of 18171864 was an invasion of the Caucasus by the Russian Empire which resulted in Russia's annexation of the areas of the North Caucasus, and the Ethnic cleansing of Circassians. It consisted of a series of military actions waged by Russia against territories and tribal groups in Caucasia including: Chechnya, Dagestan, the Circassians (Adyghe, Kabarday), Abkhaz, Abazins, and Ubykh, as Russia sought to expand southward. In Dagestan, resistance to the Russians has been described as jihad. Sukhumi or Sokhumi ("Aqwa"  "Sukhum(i)") is a city on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia which has controlled it since the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia, although most of the international community considers it legally part of Georgia. A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. While in popular usage the term "myth" often refers to false or fanciful stories, formally, it does not imply falsehood. Cultures generally regard their creation myths as true. In the society in which it is told, a creation myth is usually regarded as conveying profound truths, metaphorically, symbolically and sometimes in a historical or literal sense. They are commonly, although not always, considered cosmogonical myths  that is, they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness.
candidates: abkhazia bulgaria caspian sea caucasia caucasus georgia ii moscow most north caucasus of oral petersburg romania russia russian empire saint petersburg samara sokhumi tradition turkey vienna york
answer: russian empire