Baksan (city)

city Baksan Баксан ( Russian ) Бэхъсэн ( Kabardian ) coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus republic Kabardino-Balkaria Urban district Baksan mayor Anatoly Schamalowitsch Bifow Founded 1891 City since 1967 surface 176  km² population 36,860 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 209 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 450  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86634 Post Code 36153x License Plate 07 OKATO 83 403 Website baksan-city.ru Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 41 '  N , 43 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 41 '0 "  N , 43 ° 32' 0"  E

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Location in Kabardino-Balkaria

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Baksan ( Russian Бакса́н ) is a city in the North Caucasian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria with 36,860 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus about 25 km northwest of the republic capital Nalschik on the Baksan , a right tributary of the Malka, which flows into the Terek .

Baksan forms an independent urban district and is also the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The city is located on the M29 Rostov-on-Don - Azerbaijani border road, which is developed like a motorway here and is a bypass road to the southwest around the city.

history

A village in the place of today's city was first mentioned in a document in 1748. In 1822, a fortified settlement was built as part of the Caucasus Defense Line on what was then the southern border of the Russian Empire. Another settlement was established in 1891 by resettlers from central Russia and Ukraine .

Gradually these settlements grew together; 1960 Staraja Krepost (or Kabardian Kutschmasukino after Kabardinian Prince sex Kuschmasoko ) connected. In 1964 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and in 1967 the town charter .

In 2003 the large village of Dugulubgei (formerly Kysburun 3-j / Kysburun Treti ) , located directly opposite on the right bank of the Baksan, was incorporated, so that the number of inhabitants rose sharply compared to the last census in 2002. A few years later, however, the village became independent again under the modified name of Dygulybgei within the Baksan district.

Population development

year	Residents	annotation
1939	3,805	Kysburun Treti 5,197
1959	3,583	Staraja Krepost 8.018
1970	18,443	Kysburun Treti 8,898
1979	21,843	Kysburun Treti 11,020
1989	28,800
2002	35,805	Dugulubgei 20,355
2010	36,860	Dygulybgei 20,228

Note: census data

economy

Baksan has radio electronics and vehicle spare parts plants as well as the textile and food industries.

The Baksan hydroelectric power station is located above the city on the Baksan River .

Web links

• Baksan on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)