Ust-Dzheguta

Ust- Dscheguta (Russian Усть - Джегута ) is a city in the southern Russian republic of Karachay -Cherkessia with 30 566 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is situated on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus about 15 km south of the capital of Republic Tscherkessk on the right bank of the Kuban at the mouth of the river Dscheguta. The Kuban is above the town to the small Ust- Dschegutinsker dammed reservoir which feeds the branches off here, irrigation serving Great Stavropol Canal.

Ust- Dscheguta is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city is connected by a 67 km long branch line with Tscherkessk as well as the main line of the North Caucasus Railway ( station Selentschuk ). The station of the city is called Dscheguta.

History

The village was founded in 1861 as a Cossack village Ust- Dschegutinskaja of Cossacks who resettled here from the lower reaches of the Kuban, and received city rights in 1975. The name is from the Russian word for Ustje mouth and the words karatschaischen dschoge ( Linde ) and tei (river) derived.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

Ust- Dscheguta is the center of the building materials industry: here are works for precast reinforced concrete, cement, lime and silicate bricks settled.

Sons and daughters of the town

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