Zelenchukskaya

Staniza Zelenchukskaya Zelenchuksky Federal district North Caucasus republic Karachay Cherkessia Rajon Zelenchukskaya Founded 1859 population 19,449 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 930  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87878 Post Code 369140-369146 License Plate 09 OKATO 91 210 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 51 '  N , 41 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 51 '30 "  N , 41 ° 35' 30"  E

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Location in Karachay-Cherkessia

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Selentschukskaja ( Russian Зеленчу́кская , Karachay-Balkar Зеленчук ) is a stanitsa in the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia ( Russia ) with 19,449 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The Stanitsa is located in the northern part of the Greater Caucasus , between the Skalisty ridge ("rock ridge"), which rises north of the place up to 1600  m , and the main ridge, 60 km further south. The eponymous Great Selentschuk (Bolshoi Selentschuk), a left tributary of the Kuban, flows through the town, which is about 60 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Cherkessk .

Zelenchukskaya is the administrative center of the Zelenchukskaya Rajon of the same name .

history

The Stanitsa Zelenchukskaya was founded in 1859 by Cossacks who were resettled from the Don area and the governorates of Kharkov , Poltava and Voronezh . She initially belonged to the (Otdel) Batalpaschinsk department of Kuban Oblast . In 1922, as part of an administrative reform, it became the center of a newly created Rajon of what was then the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region, the predecessor of today's republic.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	12,629
1959	16,464
1970	17,894
1979	17,948
1989	20,455
2002	21,025
2010	19,449

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The largest radio telescope in the world, the RATAN 600 of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) , has been located directly on the southern edge of the town since 1974 . It belongs to the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the RAN , also known as the Selentschuk Observatory , which is located with its six-meter reflector telescope in a dome structure of 53 meters in diameter on a ridge about 2000  m high about 30 km south of the Stanitsa.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Zelenchukskaya the food and textile industry as well as the forest and building materials industry.

The nearest railway station is by road about 60 km away in the north-eastern city of Ust-Dzheguta and endpoint of a 67 km long branch line from Nevinnomyssk (Station Selentschuk ) on the main line of the North Caucasian railway . Runs through Zelenchukskaya of Maikop , the capital of the Republic of Adygea , upcoming regional road R256 , 30 km east of the stanitsa on the highway A155 between Ust-Dzheguta and Karachayevsk ends in Kubantal. In Zelenchukskaya, the R265 branches off from this , which leads up the Great Zelenchuk to the tourist resort of Archys , 50 km away .

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. ↑ ^{a b} Zelenchukskaya on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)