Uspenskoye, Krasnodar Krai

Uspenskoe (Russian Успенское ) is a village ( selo ) in the Krasnodar region of Russia with a population of 12,409 (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 190 km as the crow east-southeast of the administrative center of Krasnodar Region and about 30 km southeast of the city of Armavir, near the border with the neighboring Stavropol region. It is located in the Caucasus foothills on the left bank of the Kuban.

Uspenskoe is the administrative center of the Rajons Uspenski and the seat of the rural community Uspenskoe selskoje posselenije, which also includes the settlement Mitschurinski (10 km south-east ) and Weiler ( Chutor ) Belezki (7 km southeast), Lok ( 14 km southeast ), Podkowski (13 km south-southeast ), Ukrainski (5 km southwest) and Assumption (12 km south-southeast ) belong.

History

The village was founded in 1864 towards the end of the Caucasus War of first 17 ​​families resettled from the government of Jekaterinoslaw and was named after the Christian holiday of Mary into heaven, Russian Uspenije Boschjei material.

As of June 2, 1924, the village was the first time the administrative seat of a Rajons, then after an interim resolution of Rajons on November 6, 1929 again from December 31 1934 to 28 April 1962. February 21, 1975, the Uspenski was rajon in its current boundaries again carved out of the territory of the Nowokubanski rayon.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Uspenskoe is south of the federal highway R217 Kavkaz (formerly M29 ) bypassed, which runs along the northern edge of the Caucasus to the Azerbaijani border. When you place the breakpoint is 1680 km, which opened on this section in 1875 and electrified railway line since 1962 Rostov-on- Don - Vladikavkaz / - Makhachkala - Baku. At kilometer 1676 (from Moscow) of Konokowo train station is closer to the west adjoining the same village.