Zelenchukskaya

Selentschukskaja (Russian Зеленчукская, Karachay- Balkar Зеленчук ) is a Cossack village in the Republic of Karachay -Cherkessia (Russia) with 19 449 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The Cossack village is located in the northern part of the Greater Caucasus, between the Skalisty comb ( " rocky ridge " ), the north of the village rises to 1600 m, and 60 km to the south extending main ridge. By about 60 km as the crow southwest of the Republic Capital Tscherkessk situated place flows the eponymous Great Selentschuk ( Bolshoi Selentschuk ), a left tributary of the Kuban.

Selentschukskaja is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Selentschukskaja.

History

The Staniza Selentschukskaja was founded in 1859 by Cossacks who were resettled from the Don region and the provinces of Kharkov, Poltava and Voronezh. It belonged first to the department ( Otdel ) Batalpaschinsk the Kuban Oblast. In 1922 she was in an administrative reform center of a newly created Rajons the then Karachay- Cherkess Autonomous Region, the predecessor of today's Republic.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

Directly on the southern outskirts of the village is located since 1974, the largest radio telescope in the world, the RATAN 600 of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( RAN). It is part of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the RAN, also called Selentschuk Observatory, located about 30 km south of the Cossack village with its six- meter mirror telescope in a dome of 53 meters in diameter on an approximately 2000 m high mountain ridge.

Economy and infrastructure

In Selentschukskaja the food and textile industries and the forestry and construction materials industry.

The nearest railway station is by road about 60 km away in the north-eastern city of Ust- Dscheguta and is the terminus of a 67 km long branch line from Newinnomyssk ( Selentschuk station ) on the main line of the North Caucasian railway. By Selentschukskaja the Maikop, the capital of the Republic of Adygea, upcoming regional road R256, which ends 30 km east of the Cossack village on the A155 trunk road between Ust- Dscheguta and Karatschajewsk in Kubantal runs. In Selentschukskaja branches off from this, the R265, which leads the Big Selentschuk up to in the 50 km to tourist town Archys.

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