Inozemtsevo

Inosemzewo (Russian Иноземцево ) is an urban-type settlement in the southern Russian region of Stavropol with 28 398 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is situated on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus nearly 200 kilometers southeast of the capital city of Stavropol region on the upper reaches of smaller tributaries of the right Kuma.

Immediately west of Inosemzewo rises the 1400 meters high mountain Beschtau, south of the 993 meter high Maschuk. A good five kilometers southwest of Inosemzewo is the city of Pyatigorsk.

Inosemzewo part of the urban district of eight kilometers north-west Zheleznovodsk and the latter has become obsolete in the population.

History

1802 inhabited by Tatars, Kabardians and Abasinen village Karras was visited at site of today's Inosemzewo pioneered by the Scottish missionaries Henry Brunton and Alexander Paterson, accompanied by the Susu Jellorum Harrison ( from present-day Guinea). They founded here by permission of the Czar Alexander I in 1806, a mission settlement, to convert the resident Muslim population to Christianity. The mission lasted until 1835 and was called officially Schotlandskaja Kolonija ( Scottish colony), colloquially Schotlandka, a name which was also later used.

Already in 1809 also arrived the first Volga German settlers. 1819 set up this near an independent colony by the name of Nikolayev. As a result of German presented the vast majority of the residents of the two settlements.

Soon the two German settlements to popular places for spa guests from dan nearby spas Pyatigorsk and Zheleznovodsk were. Here dwelt among others, the poet Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov. Lermontov spent here in the cafe of the German Gottlieb and Anna Roschke the eve of his Duelltod on the mountain Maschuk 1841.

In September 1941, the German inhabitants of the settlements were deported (at this point 90 percent of the population ) in the Asian part of the Soviet Union.

In 1959, Karras and Nikolajewka combined and received the status of an urban-type settlement. At the same time it was renamed in honor of the engineer and longtime director of the Wladikawkaser, later North Caucasus Railway and initiators of the construction of the branch line to Kislovodsk Ivan Inosemzew (1843-1913), who lived here in his last years.

Demographics

Note: from 1897 census data

Economy and infrastructure

Inosemzewo today as the surrounding cities mainly resort and spa, albeit less significant and known. There are also companies in the construction industry and the food industry.

The settlement is located on the railway line Mineralnye Vody - Kislovodsk - Pyatigorsk ( stations Inosemzewo and Maschuk ).

By Inosemzewo the M29 highway Rostov -on-Don leads - Azerbaijani border.