Going to the Caucasus, you will certainly pass through the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. The route passes through the capital - the city of Cherkessk.
The population of Cherkessk in 2017 is 122, 478 people.
Meet Cherkessk
Surrounded by the foothills of the main Caucasian ridge, the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia freely spreads over almost 70 square meters. km along the right bank of the Kuban River.
By road and rail the city is connected with Krasnodar, Pyatigorsk and Nevinnomyssk. Before, a busy Military-Sukhumi road connecting Russia and Abkhazia passed through Cherkessk.
National picture
The population of the city of Cherkessk is people of 80 nationalities living in peace and harmony. Most of the residents are Russians, Karachais, Circassians, Nogais and Abazins.
Ukrainians and Ossetians, Armenians and Tatars, Greeks and Azerbaijanis, Gypsies and Kabardins live in the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia. There are even representatives of small nations - Laks, Kumyks, Avars and Dargins.
The population of Cherkessk professes Islam, Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism.
But mutual understanding and peace did not always reign on these lands.
The past of Cherkessk
When in 1804 the Cossack regiments, commanded by General I.I. German, defeated the army of Turks Batal Pasha, it was decided to establish a Cossack village on the troubled border line. They gave her the name of the defeated Turkish military commander - Batalpashinskaya. Cossacks guarded the borders and traded with many Caucasian tribes.
With this name, the settlement lasted more than a century, until 1931, when the overgrown settlement became a city, and the name was changed to Batalpashinsk.
But the inhabitants did not get used to the new name for long. Then the historical leapfrog began. Three years later, in 1934, Batalpashinsk became Sulimov, in honor of the head of the Council of People's Commissars of the young country of the RSFSR D.E. Sulimov.
A little more time - and in 1937 the name of Sulimov executed by that moment was replaced by the name of the people's commissar of internal affairs. The city became known as Yezhovo-Cherkessk.
Two years pass, Yezhov is also arrested, shot, his name disappears from the name. The city was simply called - Cherkessk.
The city on the banks of the Kuban becomes the capital of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic in 1991.
Religion in Cherkessk
The population of this small town professes different religions and tolerates each other's faith. There are few architectural and historical monuments in Cherkessk, but there are enough churches, mosques and temples.
There are Orthodox churches: St. Nicholas Cathedral, the Church of the Intercession and St. George, the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh.
Armenian services are held in the church of St. George. There is a Protestant church.
The huge 33 domes of the Cathedral Mosque of Cherkessk cannot be overlooked. The mosque is located in the city center next to the A-155 highway leading to the Teberdu ski resort. A mosque was recently built, in 2007, and it can simultaneously contain five thousand worshipers.
In different areas of the city there are 3 more mosques.
Such religious diversity affects the mentality of the inhabitants. They are good-natured and calmly treat visitors and Gentiles.
Economic potential
Cherkessk is divided into 3 microdistricts:
- in the North is almost all industry;
- in the South - private households;
- Central is the historical part of the city.
The population of the city of Cherkessk over the past decade has decreased by almost 5 thousand people. This is associated with a decline in the economic development of the republic. Many residents of the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia in the recent past preferred to go to other regions of the country to earn money. However, now the situation is improving.
In recent years, the population of Cherkessk has been actively employed in the homeland, working in industry and agriculture. According to statistics, in 2016, more than half of the industrial output of the entire republic was produced in the capital.
About 3, 500 enterprises in various industries operate in the city:
- chemical;
- mechanical engineering;
- rubber;
- construction.
Far beyond the borders of the republic, the products of the meat and dairy enterprises, and the wool processing factory are known, and the automobile plant produces excellent products.
In local stores, bread and sweets produced in their own region are in demand.
Recently, the city has been actively building up, and there is hope that the population of Cherkessk will increase with the development of industry, agriculture and tourism.
