Cherkessk

city Cherkessk Cherkesk coat of arms Federal district North Caucasus republic Karachay Cherkessia Urban district Cherkessk Founded 1804 Earlier names Batalpaschinskaja (until 1931) Batalpaschinsk (until 1934) Sulimow (until 1937) Jeschowo-Cherkessk (until 1939) City since 1931 surface 66  km² population 129,069 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1956 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 530  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 8782 Post Code 369000-369016 License Plate 09 OKATO 91 401 Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 13 '  N , 42 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 13 '0 "  N , 42 ° 3' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Karachay-Cherkessia

List of cities in Russia

Cherkessk ( Russian Черке́сск ) is a city in southern Russia . It is the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia and has 129,069 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the foothills of the Caucasus in the relatively flat north of the republic, on the right bank of the Kuban River . The Karachay-Cherkessian border with the Stavropol region runs about 20 km north of the city . The closest cities are Ust-Dscheguta (16 km southwest of Cherkessk) and the city of Nevinnomyssk in the Stavropol region (47 km north).

history

The place was founded in 1804 as one of the military bases on Russia's southern border. In 1825 the fortress received the status of a Cossack Stanitsa with the name Batalpaschinskaja ( Баталпашинская ). In the 19th century the place was only important for agriculture, there was also a sawmill there. In 1880 Batalpaschinskaja became the district center of the Cuban Province.

In the 1930s the place was renamed several times: in 1931 it was given city status and was called Batalpaschinsk ( Баталпашинск ) from 1931–34 , and from 1934–37 it was named Sulimov ( Сули́мов ) in honor of the Soviet statesman Daniil Sulimov . After he was convicted and executed in the course of the Stalin Purges , the city was called Yezhovo-Cherkessk ( Ежово-Черкесск ) after Interior Minister Nikolai Yezhov from 1937-39 . After this was also convicted, the city was given its current name in 1939.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	11,473
1939	28,645
1959	41,709
1970	67.186
1979	90,833
1989	113.060
2002	116.244
2010	129,069

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Cherkessk is primarily an administrative city; the electronics industry, leather goods and food production are of industrial importance.

Road connections exist, among other things, to the trunk road M29 via the federal road A155 . In Cherkessk there is a train station on the route from Nevinnomyssk to Ust-Dscheguta. Urban public transport consists of a trolleybus network as well as buses and regular taxis .

sons and daughters of the town

• Dmitri Wassilenko (1975-2019), Russian gymnast and Olympic champion
• Beslan Gublija (* 1976), Abkhaz-Russian football player
• Raschid Temresow (* 1976), politician, head of the Russian republic Karachay-Cherkessia
• Murat Chratschow (* 1983), boxer and bronze medalist at the 2004 Olympic Games
• Dawit Safarjan (* 1989), Armenian wrestler

Web links

Commons : Cherkessk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Cherkessk 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)