Arsgir

Village Arsgir Arzgir Federal district North Caucasus region Stavropol Rajon Arsgir Founded 1876 population 14,722 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 75  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86560 Post Code 356570-356571 License Plate 26, 126 OKATO 07 207 802 001 Geographical location Coordinates 45 ° 23 '  N , 44 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 22 '30 "  N , 44 ° 13' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Stavropol Territory

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
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

1. ↑ ^{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)
2. ↑ 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)