Utschkeken

Village Uchkeken Учкекен ( Russian ) Ючкёкен ( Karachay-Balkar ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Karachay Cherkessia Rajon Malokarachayevsky head Ansor Semenov population 16,512 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 980  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87877 Post Code 369380-369382 License Plate 09 OKATO 91 220 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 56 '  N , 42 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 56 '0 "  N , 42 ° 31' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Karachay-Cherkessia

List of large settlements in Russia

Utschkeken ( Russian Учкекен , Karachay - Balkar Ючкёкен ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia ( Russia ) with 16,512 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is located on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus , about 50 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Cherkessk and 16 km west of the spa town of Kislovodsk, which is already in the neighboring Stavropol region . The mountains in the vicinity of the almost 1000  m high place rise to about 1500  m . Utschkeken extends in the valley of the Eschkakon, which flows into the right Kuma tributary Podkumok at the lower edge of the village .

Uchkeken is the administrative center of the Rajons Malokaratschajewski . The place is mainly inhabited by Karachay people.

history

The village was founded in 1922. When the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region (predecessor of today's republic) was re-established in 1943 , it became the administrative center of a Rajon.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	4,997
1970	9.110
1979	11,268
1989	13,872
2002	15.052
2010	16,512

Note: census data

education

There are branches of the Southern Federal University of Rostov-on-Don and the State Linguistic University of Pyatigorsk in Uchkeken .

Economy and Infrastructure

In the agricultural area around Utschkeken, wheat, potatoes and fodder crops are grown; cattle, sheep and horses are raised ( Karachayevsky stud ). In the village there are light and food industries as well as the construction industry.

The nearest train station as the end of a branch line from Mineralnye Vody is in Kislovodsk. The A157 Karachayevsk  - Pyatigorsk road runs through the village .

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} Utschkeken on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)