Selenokumsk

city Selenokumsk Зеленокумск flag coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus region Stavropol Rajon Sowetski mayor Alexei Kobernjakov Founded 1762 Earlier names Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye, Novo-Grigoryevskoye (until 1963) Sovetskoye (1963–1965) City since 1965 surface 24  km² population 35,839 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1493 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 145  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86552 Post Code 357910-357916 License Plate 26, 126 OKATO 07 250 501 Website www.sovadmin.ru Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 25 '  N , 43 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 25 '0 "  N , 43 ° 53' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Stavropol Territory

List of cities in Russia

Selenokumsk ( Russian Зеленокумск ) is a city in the Stavropol region ( Russia ) with 35,839 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the northern Caucasus foothills on the Kuma , about 260 km east of the regional capital Stavropol .

Zelenokumsk is the administrative center of the Rajons Sovetsky.

The city lies on the railway line Georgievsk - Budyonnowsk - Svetlograd, which was completed on this section in 1914 .

history

The place was created in 1762 on the possessions of Count Alexander Voronzow by relocating farmers from the villages of Voronzowka and Alexandrowka in the Voronezh governorate . It was therefore given the name Vorontsovo-Alexandrowka .

During the Second World War , the village called Vorontsovo-Alexandrowskoje at that time was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on August 18, 1942 and recaptured on January 10, 1943 by troops of the Transcaucasus Front of the Red Army .

Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye was united in 1963 with the village of Novo-Grigoryevskoye on the left bank of the Kuma under the name of Sovetskoye and received the status of an urban-type settlement . In 1965 the city was given its town charter under its current name (after the river and the Russian word seljony for green ).

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1939	20,631	Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye 10,745, Novo-Grigoryevskoye 9,886
1959	22.204	Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye 11,503, Novo-Grigoryevskoye 10,701
1970	29,691
1979	32,053
1989	35,140
2002	40,340
2010	35,839

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The city has a local museum.

In the village of Otkasnoye, 20 kilometers west of the city, the Nikolai Church ( церковь Николая Угодника / zerkow Nikolaya Ugodnika) was restored from 1902 at the beginning of the 1990s and reopened in 1992.

economy

In Zelenokumsk there are mechanical and electrical equipment manufacturing companies as well as the textile and food industries. The city is the center of an agricultural area.

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Grebenjuk (* 1951), athlete

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)

Web links

• Sovetsky Raion Administration website (Russian)
• Private website about Zelenokumsk (Russian, photos)
• Selenokumsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)