place_of_birth dmitry gulia
The United Nations ( UN ) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co - operation . A replacement for the ineffective League ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK4___ famine , natural disaster , and armed conflict . A creation myth is a symbolic narrative ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK4___ the cosmos from a state ___MASK4___ chaos or amorphousness . Dmitry Gulia ( Abkhaz :   -   ; Georgian :   ; 9 February 1874 -- 7 April 1960 ) was an Abkhazian Soviet writer and poet , considered to be one ___MASK4___ the founders ___MASK4___ Abkhaz literature . Dmitry Iosifovich Gulia was born to a peasant family in Uarcha village , in the modern Gulripshi District ___MASK4___ Abkhazia , Georgia . Gulia studied at a teacher seminary in the city ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK4___ the first Abkhaz newspaper Apsny ( Abkhazia ) . His diverse activities reached the culmination in the Soviet times . His lyrics are penetrated with the pathos ___MASK4___ creation , friendship , and unity ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK4___ the USSR Supreme Council ___MASK4___ fourth and fifth convocations . He was awarded the Order ___MASK4___ Lenin . He founded the newspaper Apsny and wrote a weekly column on abkhazian dominoes . Dmitry Gulia died on April 7 , 1960 in the village ___MASK4___ Agudzera in Abkhazia and was buried in the city ___MASK4___ Sukhumi . ___MASK100___ (' ; ' ) is a partially recognised state on the eastern coast ___MASK4___ the Black Sea and the south - western flank ___MASK4___ the Caucasus Mountains , south ___MASK4___ Russia and northwest ___MASK4___ Georgia proper . It covers and has a population ___MASK4___ around 240 , 000 . Its capital is Sukhumi . The separatist Abkhazian polity , formally the Republic ___MASK4___ ___MASK100___ or Apsny , is recognised only by Russia and a small number ___MASK4___ other countries . While Georgia lacks control over ___MASK100___ , the Georgian government , the United Nations and the majority ___MASK4___ the world ' s governments consider ___MASK100___ part ___MASK4___ Georgia , whose constitution designates the area the Autonomous Republic ___MASK4___ ___MASK100___ . Sukhumi or ___MASK83___ (" Aqwa " " Sukhum ( i )") is a city on the Black Sea coast . It is the capital ___MASK4___ the breakaway Republic ___MASK4___ Abkhazia which has controlled it since the 1992 - 93 war in Abkhazia , although most ___MASK4___ the international community considers it legally part ___MASK4___ Georgia . The Caucasian War ___MASK4___ 1817  1864 was an invasion ___MASK4___ the Caucasus by the ___MASK25___ which resulted in Russia ' s annexation ___MASK4___ the areas ___MASK4___ the North Caucasus , and the Ethnic cleansing ___MASK4___ Circassians . It consisted ___MASK4___ a series ___MASK4___ 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 . The written Abkhaz literature appeared relatively recently in the beginning ___MASK4___ the 20th century although Abkhaz oral tradition is quite rich . Abkhaz share with other Caucasian peoples the Nart sagas  series ___MASK4___ tales about mythical heroes , some ___MASK4___ 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 ___MASK4___ water between Eastern Europe and Western Asia , bounded by Bulgaria , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey , and Ukraine . It is supplied by a number ___MASK4___ major rivers , such as the Danube , Dnieper , Rioni , Southern Bug , and Dniester . The Black Sea has an area ___MASK4___ ( not including the Sea ___MASK4___ Azov ), a maximum depth ___MASK4___ , and a volume ___MASK4___ . 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 . ___MASK62___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK62___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth ___MASK4___ the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end ___MASK4___ March 2016 . The European western part ___MASK4___ the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % ___MASK4___ the population live in European ___MASK62___ . ___MASK62___ ' s capital Moscow is one ___MASK4___ the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and ___MASK63___ . The ___MASK18___ Mountains are a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the ___MASK18___ region . The Nart sagas (; " Narty kaddžytæ ") are a series ___MASK4___ tales originating from the North Caucasus . They form the basic mythology ___MASK4___ the tribes in the area , including Abazin , Abkhaz , Circassian , Ossetian , Karachay - Balkar and Chechen - Ingush folklore .