Arsgir
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Arsgir
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List of large settlements in Russia |
Arsgir ( Russian Арзгир ) is a village in the Stavropol region ( Russia ) with 14,722 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is in the hilly steppe landscape of the northern Caucasus foothills , south of the Manytn lowlands , about 180 kilometers as the crow flies east-northeast of the regional administrative center of Stavropol . The Chograi river, which regularly dries up in the summer months and carries otherwise salty water, flows through Arsgir, which gives its name to the Chograi reservoir on the eastern Manych , into which it flows, a good 20 kilometers to the northeast .
Arsgir is the administrative center of the Arsgir Rajon of the same name . The village soviet Arsgir is assigned to the village, 15 kilometers southwest of Aul Baschanta.
history
The village of Arsgir was founded on August 7th July by order of the authorities of the Stavropol Governorate . / August 19, 1876 greg. after farmers from the "Little Russian" governorates of Kiev , Poltava and Chernigov as well as from central Russia had settled in the area. The place name is of Turkish origin.
As part of an administrative reform in 1924, Arsgir became the center of a newly created Rajon. In the Second World War , Arsgir was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from August 1942 to January 1943 .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 11,069 |
1959 | 9,148 |
1970 | 12,291 |
1979 | 13,117 |
1989 | 15.307 |
2002 | 15,559 |
2010 | 14,722 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
The main economic branch of the area is agriculture with predominantly grain cultivation as well as cattle and sheep husbandry. In Arsgir there is a meat processing company and some construction companies.
To the south has Arsgir road access to the approximately 70 kilometers away Budennovsk on the regional road R263 Georgievsk - Lagan , where the nearest train station is located. A road leads to the west in the direction of Swetlograd . In a south-easterly direction there is a connection to the villages on the Kuma -Manytsch Canal about 50 kilometers away ; the R263 north of Neftekumsk is also reached.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
- ↑ Arsgir village soviet ( memento of April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the Rajon administration website
Web links
- Official website of the Raion Administration (Russian)