CHERKESSK

chĭrkĕskˈ, city (1989 pop. 113,000), capital of Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Stavropol Territory, SE European Russian, on the Kuban River. Founded in 1825 as Batalpashinsk, it manufactures electrical equipment and shoes and has food-processing plants.

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The Caspian Region - Vol. 2
Book by Moshe Gammer; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Caspian Sea Region--Politics And Government--20th Century, Caspian Sea Region--Strategic Aspects, Caucasus--Ethnic Relations, Caucasus--Politics And Government--20th Century
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Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia
Book by S. V. Utechin; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...CHELYUSKIN, CAPE CHEREMKHOVO CHEREPOVETS CHERKASSY CHERKESSK CHERNIGOV CHERNOGORSK CHERNOVTSY CHERNYAKHOVSK...including Karachay Circassian A.O. 5,500 277 Cherkessk F. Urals Bashkir A.S.S.R. 56,000 3,335...
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union
Book by Michael T. Florinsky; McGraw-Hill, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Encyclopedias
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An Ethnic History of Russia: Pre-Revolutionary Times to the Present
Book by Tatiana Mastyugina, Lev Perepelkin, Vitaly Naumkin, Irina Zviagelskaia; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Ethnology--Russia, Ethnology--Russia (Federation), Ethnology--Soviet Union, Russia (Federation)--Ethnic Relations, Russia--Ethnic Relations, Soviet Union--Ethnic Relations
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An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires
Book by James S. Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas, Nicholas C. J. Pappas; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Ethnology--Russia--Dictionaries, Ethnology--Soviet Union--Dictionaries, Russia--Ethnic Relations--Dictionaries, Soviet Union--Ethnic Relations--Dictionaries
...of Batal Pasha on the upper Kuban River in 1790, and founded the stanitza fortress of Batalpashinsk now the city of Cherkessk in 1804; from there, the Georgian Military Road now winds through the mountains down to Sukhumi. General Aleksei Yennolov...
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encyclopedia articles on: Cherkessk  - 5 results

 
 
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Cherkessk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHERKESSK chirkesk , city (1989 pop. 113,000), capital of Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Stavropol Territory, SE European Russian, on the...
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Batalpashinsk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BATALPASHINSK see Cherkessk , Russia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Kuban
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Greater Caucasus on the western slopes of Mt. Elbrus, S European Russia, and flowing north in a wide arc past Karachayevsk, Cherkessk, and Armavir, then W past Krasnodar, entering the Sea of Azov through two arms. Its upper course is precipitous and leads...
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Karachay-Cherkess Republic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...500 sq mi (14,200 sq km), Stavropol Territory, SE European Russia, in the Greater Caucasus, along the upper Kuban River. Cherkessk is the capital. The republic consists of lowland steppe in the north and the Caucasian foothills in the south. Grains, fruits...
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Stavropol Territory
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...numerous mineral spas and is a major resort area. The chief towns are Stavropol, the capital; Pyatigorsk; Kislovodsk; and Cherkessk. The Karachay-Cherkess Republic is in the territory. The population is for the most part Russian and Ukrainian; minority groups...


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