Zelenokumsk

Selenokumsk (Russian Зеленокумск ) is a city in Stavropol (Russia) region with 35 839 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the northern Caucasus foothills of the Kuma, about 260 km east of the regional capital Stavropol.

Selenokumsk is the administrative center of the Rajons Sovetsky.

The city lies on the completed on this section 1914 railway Georgiyevsk - Budjonnowsk - Swetlograd.

History

The village was founded in 1762 on the estates of Count Alexander Vorontsov through resettlement of peasants from the villages Woronzowka and Alexandrovka in the government of Voronezh. It therefore received the name Woronzowo - Alexandrovka.

During World War II the village referred to in this time Woronzowo - Alexandrovskoe was occupied on August 18, 1942 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 10 January 1943 by troops of the Trans- Caucasus front of the Red Army.

The village was in 1963 under the name Sowetskoje the status of an urban-type settlement and a city charter in 1965 under the present name ( after the river and the Russian word for seljony green). At the same time the large village Nowogrigorjewskoje was incorporated ( 9900 inhabitants in 1939 ).

Demographics

Note: Census data (1959 rounded)

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of local history.

In the village Otkasnoje 20 kilometers west of the city, the Nikolai Church ( церковь Николая Угодника / Tserkov Nikolaja Ugodnika ) was restored from 1902 to the early 1990s and reopened in 1992.

Economy

In Selenokumsk there are plants of machinery and electrical equipment manufacture and the textile and food industries. The city is the center of an agricultural region.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Grebenjuk Alexander (* 1951), Athlete