Novoalexandrovsk

Nowoalexandrowsk (Russian Новоалександровск ) is a city in Stavropol (Russia) region with 26,757 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the northern Caucasus foothills about 110 km south-west of the regional capital Stavropol at the Rasschewatka in the river system of the Manytsch.

Nowoalexandrowsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1897 railway Kropotkin ( station Kawkasskaja ) Stavropol Elista. The station of the city is called Rasschewatka.

History

The town was founded in 1804 by evacuees from the provinces of central Russia as a village Novo- Alexandrovskoe ( after the then Tsar Alexander I.; nowo - Russian for new ). 1832 was the village as Nowoalexandrowskaja the status of a Kosakenstaniza.

In 1971 the city charter was granted.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

Nowoalexandrowsk is the center of an agricultural region with it oriented food industry. There are also building materials industry and a factory for canning jars.

Sons and daughters of the town

Stavropol Krai Vehicle registration plates of Russia OKATO Caucasus Mountains Manych River Raion Kropotkin, Krasnodar Krai Guberniya Stanitsa Alexandrovskoye, Stavropol Krai Georgiyevsk Goryachevodsky Inozemtsevo Izobilny, Stavropol Krai Kochubeyevskoye Krasnogvardeyskoye, Stavropol Krai Mikhaylovsk, Stavropol Krai Neftekumsk Zheleznovodsk Zelenokumsk
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