Mosdok

city Mosdok Моздок ( Russian ) Мӕздӕг ( Ossetian ) flag coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus republic North Ossetia-Alania Rajon Mosdok head Georgi Adamov Founded 1763 City since 1785 surface 9  km² population 38,768 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 4308 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86736 Post Code 363750 License Plate 15th OKATO 90 230 501 Website http://www.mozdok.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 45 '  N , 44 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 45 '0 "  N , 44 ° 39' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in North Ossetia-Alania

List of cities in Russia

Mosdok ( Russian Моздок , Ossetian Мӕздӕг ^{? / I} Mæsdæg }) is a city in the North Caucasian Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in Russia with 38,768 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Surname

The name of the city comes from the Kabardian language and means "dense forest".

geography

The city is located northeast of the Greater Caucasus , on the southern edge of the Terek-Kuma lowland , about 90 km north of the republic capital Vladikavkaz on the high left bank of the Terek .

Mosdok is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

The town lies on the abbreviation of the main line of the North Caucasus Railway opened in 1915 railway prokhladny - Gudermes . After the original route via Grozny became impassable as a result of the Chechen wars, this is the only direct connection from Rostov-on-Don in the direction of Makhachkala and Baku .

history

In 1759 the ruler of the so-called "Little Kabardei" , Kurgoka Kanschokin, adopted Christianity ( Orthodox baptismal name Andrei Ivanov), submitted to the Russian Empire and settled with around 100 Kabardians and Ossetians in the then dense forests of the Terectal . The fortified settlement was named after the area, Kabardian mes degu for deep forest . In 1763 a fortress was built on the Caucasian Line , which received city ​​rights as Mosdok in 1765 .

1770 517 were Cossack families from the Volga resettled in the area of Mozdok and the Mosdoker Cossack Regiment of the Terek Cossacks founded. In 1772 the Don Cossack Jemeljan Pugachev was briefly imprisoned in Mozdok , but was able to escape from prison and soon afterwards became the leader of the peasant uprising in the Volga- Ural region . In the same year the German naturalist Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin visited the city.

In 1777 the construction of the Azov- Mosdoker defense line began on the then southern border of the Russian Empire , the eastern end of which was the Mosdok fortress. In 1785 Mosdok became the administrative center of a district ( Ujesd ) of the governorship of the Caucasus , in 1822 - the Caucasus Oblast . During this time, Mosdok was one of the most important trading centers in the region. a. the annual Mosdok autumn market ( Mosdokskaja ossennjaja jarmarka ) took place.

As in the 1870s to 1890s, the main route of the North Caucasus Railway has been widely shown around the south around the city (about Beslan - Nazran -Grosny), Mozdok lost its importance and the city status. In 1915, however, the railroad also reached Mozdok. The economic situation improved after the end of the Russian Civil War , so that the city charter was confirmed in 1925.

During the Second World War , Mosdok was captured on August 25, 1942 by the German troops , who crossed the Terek here , and recaptured by the Red Army on January 24, 1943 .

Since the Chechen wars in 1994 there have been some important bases of the Russian armed forces in and around Mozdok . On August 1, 2003, 41 people died in a bomb attack, believed to have been carried out by Chechens, on the city's military hospital .

Population development

Old city coat of arms (1842)

year	Residents
1897	9,330
1939	19,081
1959	25 611
1979	34 394
1989	38,037
2002	42,865
2010	38,768

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Mosdok has a local museum .

Personalities

• Yuri Andropov (1914–1984), Soviet politician, spent his youth in Mozdok

economy

Mosdok is the center of an agricultural area and the food industry ( meat and dairy products , brewery , viticulture ). There are also companies in light industry (curtains, cardboard boxes) and the construction industry .

Web links

Commons : Mosdok  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Council website (Russian)
• Mozdok 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)
2. ↑ Thomas M. Barrett (1999). At the edge of empire: the Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus frontier, 1700-1860 . Westview Press , ISBN 0-8133-3671-6 , p. 44.