Mednogorski

Urban-type settlement Mednogorski Медногорский Federal district North Caucasus republic Karachay Cherkessia Rajon Urupski Founded 1961 Urban-type settlement since 1981 population 5960 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 870  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87876 Post Code 369281 License Plate 09 OKATO 91 230 558 Website медногорский.рф Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 55 '  N , 41 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 55 '0 "  N , 41 ° 11' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Karachay-Cherkessia

Mednogorski ( Russian Медного́рский ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia ( Russia ) with 5960 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Housing estate in Mednogorski

The settlement is located in the northern part of the Greater Caucasus , between the Skalisty ridge ("rock ridge"), which rises north of the place to almost 1900  m above sea level, and the 40 km further south, upstream of the main ridge and more than 3000  m high Abischira-Achuba ridge. The town, located almost 80 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic's capital Cherkessk , is on the left bank of the Seroschtanka river, which flows into the Urup a little northwest .

Mednogorski belongs to Rajon Urupski and is located about four kilometers south of the center of Rajonverwaltungszentrums which Staniza Pregradnaja on the other side of Urup. The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality Mednogorskoje gorodkoje posselenije. Almost 90% of the population are ethnic Russians , while Karachay predominate among the rest .

history

The place was founded in 1961 in connection with the construction of an enrichment factory for the copper ores extracted there . Accordingly, the settlement should first be called Mednourupski or Medno-Urupsk , from Russian med for "copper" and the river name, but on November 15, 1965 officially received the current name, for example "Kupferberg (-Siedlung)". On October 28, 1981, Mednogorski received urban-type settlement status . The mining company Urupski GOK, which is controlled by the UGMK and is the only larger company to develop the site, extends to the west near the northwest of the settlement over about two kilometers along the right bank of the Urup .

Population development

year	Residents
1989	5516
2002	4309
2010	5960

Note: census data

traffic

There is a road connection to the Maikop  - Karachayevsk regional road, which runs a little north through Pregradnaja and crosses the Urup , formerly known as the R256, today marked 91K-006 on the Karachay-Cherkessian territory. Up the Urup, the road that branches off east of Pregradnaja continues to the village of Urup .

The nearest train station is 40 km northwest of Schedok near Psebai , already in the Krasnodar region , the end point of a branch line from Kurganinsk .

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (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)