Alexandrovskoye, Stavropol Krai

Alexandrovskoe (Russian Александровское ) is a village in the Stavropol (Russia) region with 27 471 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village lies in the foothills of the Greater Caucasus, in the eastern part of Stavropol heights, approximately 90 line kilometers south-east of the administrative center of Stavropol region. It is located at the headwaters of the Tomuslowka, a left tributary of the Kuma. A few kilometers west of Alexandrovskoe rises the ridge up to about 700 m. West of the town also leads the elaborately trassierte with tunnels and culverts Great Stavropol Canal in the north, an irrigation canal, was built on the intermittently between 1957 and 2006 and is derived by the water from the Kuban at Ust- Dscheguta in the central part of the region.

Alexandrovskoe is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Alexandrovskoe. For the rural community ( Selskoje posselenije ) belong to the village of the nearby settlements and Lesnaya Polyana Dubowaja Roscha and the hamlet Charkowski.

History

The town was founded in 1777 as a fortress Alexandrovskaya the Azov- Mosdoker defensive line that ran along the southern boundary of the former Russian Empire to the Caucasus, where the name was associated with the later canonized princes and Russian national heroes of the 13th century Alexander Nevsky. In 1785 the fort was raised to the city and under the name of Alexandrovsk administrative center of one of the five provinces of the Caucasus Ujesde.

With the founding of the southern city of Pyatigorsk in 1830 Alexandrowsk lost its importance, was replaced as Ujesdverwaltungszentrum and converted into a little Kosakenstaniza under the name form Alexandrovskaya later. After a Cossack uprising 1859-1860 the Cossack village was transformed into a Selo with the current name by decree of Tsar Alexander II of 30 December 1869 the Cossacks of the place thus "simple" peasants. With the spin-off of the government Terek in 1860, which also was associated Pyatigorsk, Alexandrovskoe but again took over the function of a Ujesdzentrums the meantime (1847 ) renamed the province of Stavropol administrative unit.

In the context of an administrative reform in 1924 Alexandrovskoe administrative center of a Rajons. During World War II Alexandrovskoe mid-August 1942, taken by the Nazi Wehrmacht and mid January 1943 retaken by the Red Army during the North Caucasian surgery.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

In Alexandrovskoe as the center of an agricultural area with cultivation of cereals and sunflowers as well as cattle, sheep and pigs, there are companies in the food and construction industries.

The nearest train station is located in the 60 km distant city Mineralnye Vody. By Alexandrovskoe leads the regional road R262, which runs from Stavropol about Mineralnye Vody on the M29, Georgiyevsk and Mozdok in the northern part of the Republic of Dagestan Kizlyar and after Krainowka on the Caspian Sea.