Novopokrovskaya

Nowopokrowskaja (Russian Новопокровская ) is a Cossack village in the Krasnodar (Russia) region with 19,684 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The place is located in the northeastern Kuban in the Caucasus foothills, about 170 line kilometers northeast of the region administrative center of Krasnodar, on the upper reaches of the river Jeja near its source. Southwest of the Cossack village is a well 15 km ² large forest area, one of the few in the region.

Nowopokrowskaja is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Nowopokrowskaja. For rural settlement Nowopokrowskaja still include not only the Staniza the small settlements Gorki (7 km northeast), Jeja (9 km north-west ) and Lesnitschestwo ( " forester ", in the forest region 13 km south-west ).

History

The town was founded in 1827 by evacuees from the province of Voronezh, Kursk and Kharkov. At first he was under the name Novo- Pokrowskaja, also Karassun known: Pokrovsky called the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, one of the " Great Festivals " the Russian Orthodox Church, nowo - for new - to distinguish them from the multitude of villages with the Pokrovskoe name or Pokrowskaja preceded by Karassun, today in the form of Korsun, is the name of an opening into the Jeja the place river. 1848, the inhabitants were collected in the Cossack state and the village thus to Staniza. As part of the administrative organization of the territory was later assigned to the department ( Otdel ) Kawkasskaja the Kuban Oblast.

1924 Nowopokrowskaja administrative center of a newly created Rajons.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

In Nowopokrowskaja as the center of an agricultural area with cultivation of cereals, industrial crops and fruit, and livestock, there are companies in the food industry and two factories for agricultural machinery and steam boilers ( Nowopokrowskfermmasch and Kubanselmasch ).

The Cossack village is located on the railway line opened in 1897 Volgograd - Salsk - Tikhoretskaya ( station name Jeja; kilometer 488 ), which is operated on this section of the North Caucasian railway. Along the railway line and a regional road Tikhoretsk on the highway M29 runs after Salsk in the neighboring Rostov Oblast.

Personalities

• Irina Kowaljowa (* 1964 in Nowopokrowskaja ), poet and translator
• Arkadi Perwenzew (1911-1981), writer, Stalin Prize winners; spent his youth in Nowopokrowskaja