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Praskoweja ( Russian Праскове́я ) is a village (selo) and former city in the Stavropol region in Russia with 10,902 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is located in the foothills of the Caucasus about 180 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the regional administrative center of Stavropol on the right bank of the Kuma .
Praskoweja belongs to the Budjonnowski Rajon and is located about 5 km southeast of its administrative center Budyonnowsk . The village is the seat and only locality of the rural municipality (selskoje posselenije) Selo Praskoweja.
history
The place was founded in 1781 (according to other sources as early as 1764) by farmers who - possibly at the instigation of Prince Grigori Potjomkin - were resettled there in various governorates of the Russian Empire . The place name goes back to the holy Paraskewa, venerated in the Orthodox churches (Greek Paraskevi , derived from the Russian form Praskowja ). From 1820 the village developed into the center of viticulture in the region, which it has remained until today.
From 1867 Praskoweja belonged to the newly formed Ujesd Nowogrigorjewski of the Stavropol Governorate with its seat in Blagodarnoje . With the division of the Ujesds, Praskoweja became the seat of the Ujesds Praskoweiski on June 10, 1900, when it was granted city rights. During this time, Praskoweja was almost twice as big as the nearby Budjonnowsk, which had the town charter under the name Gorod Swjatowo Kresta, later Swjatoi Krest since 1799, but had no administrative function since 1826 (called saschtatny gorod in Russian ). On December 28, 1910, however, the administrative seat of the Ujesd was relocated to Swjatoi Krest, which had a rapid economic boom, with effect from December 18, 1911, and the Ujesd was accordingly renamed Swjatokrestowski . Praskoweja lost its town status again and later belonged to the Budjonnowski rajon, which was called Prikumski rajon from 1921 to 1935 and 1957 to 1973 (until 1924 still ujesd ).
During the Second World War , Praskoweja was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from August 1942 to January 1943 .
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1901 | 12,000 |
| 1939 | 12,137 |
| 1959 | 7,896 |
| 1979 | 10,055 |
| 1989 | 10,391 |
| 2002 | 11,218 |
| 2010 | 10,902 |
Note: census data from 1959
traffic
Praskoweja lies on the ancient route of the regional road (formerly R263) used in Mineralnye Vody from the federal highway R217 Kavkaz branches and Zelenokumsk follows the Kuma after Budennovsk (a newer bypass road bypasses Budyonnovsk spacious west) and continue on Neftekumsk to Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk in Dagestan runs.
The nearest train stations are in Budjonnowsk ( Budjonnowsk and Budjonnowsk I ), which was reached in 1914 by an 89 km long branch line from Georgievsk (direct passenger traffic Budjonnowsk - Mineralnyje Vody) and since the gap was closed to Blagodarnnoje in 1987 via Svetlograd also directly in the direction of Stavropol (today only freight traffic).
Web links
- Official website of the local government (Russian)
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)