Cherkessk on a map of Russia with streets and houses

Where is Cherkessk?

Cherkessk is a city of republican significance, which is located in the southern part of Russia and is the capital of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.
The municipality of the city of Cherkessk has the status of an urban district. It is located in the northern part of Karachay-Cherkessia, on the right bank of the Kuban River. In the north, the city borders on the Adyge-Khablsky district, in the west - on the Abaza region. Cherkessk is located in the foothills zone: to the east of the city there are hilly ridges, the maximum height of which reaches 700 m above sea level. The main industrial, cultural and economic center of the republic. The approximate population is 122 thousand people, the territory area is 70 square kilometers.

The climate in the city of Cherkessk is moderately humid. This climate is characterized by warm, humid winters and hot summers. The annual precipitation rate is 650 mm. Cherkessk is located in the same time zone as Moscow, the offset relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is +3.

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Cherkessk. Nearest cities. Distances in km. on the map (in brackets along roads) + direction. Using the hyperlink in the *distance* , you can get the route (information courtesy of the AutoTransInfo website)
1	Psyzh	3 ()	NW
2	Chapaevskoe	7 ()	WITH
3	Adyge-Khabl	15 ()	NW
4	Caucasian	15 ()	IN
5	Ust-Dzheguta	15 (17)	SW
6	Erken-Shahar	18 ()	WITH
7	Inzhich-Chukun	27 ()	SW
8	Khabez	29 ()	SW
9	Ali-Berdukovsky	35 ()	SW
10	Convenient (Krasnodar region)	38 (51)	Z
11	Ivanovskoye (Stavropol Territory)	42 (53)	WITH
12	Teresa	44 ()	SE
13	Kursavka (Stavropol Territory)	44 (120)	NE
14	Pervomayskoye	46 ()	SE
15	Otradnaya (Krasnodar region)	46 (77)	NW
16	Kardonikskaya	47 ()	SW
17	Suvorovskaya (Stavropol Territory)	47 (49)	IN
18	Nevinnomyssk	47 (65)	WITH
19	Uchkeken	48 (70)	SE
20	Kazminskoye (Stavropol Territory)	50 (80)	NW
21	Karachaevsk	51 (62)	YU
22	Calm (Krasnodar region)	51 (97)	Z
23	Kochubeevskoye (Stavropol Territory)	54 (63)	WITH
24	Zelenchukskaya	55 (66)	SW
25	Poputnaya (Krasnodar region)	59 ()	NW
26	Sentry	60 (78)	SW
27	Yasnaya Polyana (Stavropol Territory)	61 ()	IN
28	Kislovodsk	62 (93)	SE
29	Essentuki	67 (108)	IN
30	Essentukskaya (Stavropol Territory)	68 ()	IN

a brief description of

Located in the Ciscaucasia, on the right bank of the river. Kuban. Railway station. The starting point of the Military-Sukhumi road (built in 1828-78).

The average temperature in January is -5, July is +21. Precipitation is about 550 mm per year.

Territory (sq. km): 67

Information about the city of Cherkessk on the Russian Wikipedia site

Historical sketch

Founded in 1804 as a Russian military fortification on the Kuban border line, where in 1790 Russian troops under the command of General I.I. Herman defeated the 40,000-strong Turkish army of Batal Pasha, sent with supplies of weapons and money to raise the highlanders against Russia. In honor of this victory, the village of Batalpashinskaya was founded, i.e. "located where Batal Pasha was defeated."

In 1846, an exchange yard was opened there (the main item of exchange with mountaineer cattle breeders was salt), and subsequently a fair trade.

Since 1880, the village of Batalpashinskaya has been the administrative center of the district (since 1886, a department) of the Kuban region. In Batalpashinskaya there was trade in grain and livestock; there was a sawmill.

Since 1922 the center of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region, since 1926 the center of the Circassian National District, in 1928-43. Circassian Autonomous Region.

Since 1931 the city of Batalpashinsk. In 1934, it was renamed Sulimov after the name of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR D.E. Sulimov (1890-1937) In 1937, Sulimov was arrested and destroyed in custody, after which the city was renamed Yezhovo-Cherkessk, in honor of the executor of arrests and executions of that time People's Commissar of Internal Affairs N.I. Yezhov (1895-1940). In 1939, Yezhov was also arrested, after which only the second part of the name remained outside the city - Cherkessk, the center of Circassia.

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, the city was occupied by Nazi troops on August 11, 1942. It was liberated on January 17, 1943 by troops of the Transcaucasian Front during the North Caucasus Operation.

Since 1957, the center of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region, since 1991 - the capital of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.

Municipal indicators

Index	1990	1999	2001	2003	2005
Demography
Number of births, per 1000 population	13.5	9.5	10.4	11.8	12
Number of deaths, per 1000 population	9.1	11.1	11.3	12.7	12.4
Natural increase (decrease), per 1000 population	4.4	-1.6	-0.9	-0.9	-0.4
Standard of living of the population and social sphere
Average monthly nominal accrued wages, rub.	0.311	1022	2021	3727.8	5624.9
Average housing area per inhabitant (at the end of the year), sq.m.	14.4	18.3	18.4	18.5	19
Number of preschool institutions, pcs.	36	18	18	18	18
Number of children in preschool institutions, thousand people	8.3	4.2	3.9	3.9	3.8
Enrollment of children in preschool educational institutions (at the end of the year), as a percentage of the number of children of the corresponding age, %	61.5	55.5
Number of daytime educational institutions (at the beginning of the school year), pcs.	18	21	21	21	19
Number of students in daytime educational institutions, thousand people	17.4	18.8	17.8	16.4	14.3
Number of doctors, people.	575	859	851	892	873
Number of nursing staff, people.	1379	1938	1939	2223	2148
Number of hospital institutions, pcs.	10	11	10	11	11
Number of hospital beds, thousand units	1.9	2	2	2.1	2.1
Number of medical outpatient clinics, pcs.	13	20	20	20	19
Capacity of medical outpatient clinics, visits per shift, thousand units.	3.4	3.3	3.3	3.2	3.2
Number of registered crimes, pcs.	1450	2450	2414	2525	3037
Persons who committed crimes were identified, persons.	1180	1086	737	711
Economy, industry
Number of enterprises and organizations (at the end of the year), pcs.	455	3524	3689	3829	3866
Number of operating enterprises by type of activity: mining (at the end of the year), pcs.	1
Number of operating enterprises by type of activity: manufacturing (at the end of the year), pcs.	29
Number of operating enterprises by type of activity production and distribution of electricity, gas and water (at the end of the year), pcs.	8
Volume of shipped goods of own production by type of mining (in actual prices), million rubles.	2.7
Volume of shipped goods of own production by type of manufacturing (in actual prices), million rubles.	2767.8
Volume of shipped goods of own production by type of production and distribution of electricity, gas and water (in actual current prices), million rubles.	2613.9
Construction
Volume of work performed by type of activity “Construction” (until 2004 - volume of work performed under construction contracts), million rubles.	0.065	110.1	297.2	578.5	1052.9
Commissioning of residential buildings, thousand sq.m. of total area	76.1	56.6	41.1	34.2	36.7
Commissioning of residential buildings, apartments	621	320	283	310
Commissioning of preschool institutions, places	280	0	0	0	0
Commissioning of educational institutions, places	0	0	0	0	0
Commissioning of hospital facilities, beds	0	0
Commissioning of outpatient clinics, visits per shift	100	0	75	0	0
Transport
Number of bus routes (in intracity traffic), pcs.	9	9	12	12
Number of trolleybus routes, pcs.	6	6	9	9
Length of operational trolleybus lines (at the end of the year), km	8.2	19.5	20.6
Number of passengers transported by buses per year (in intracity traffic), million people.	14.5	9.9	11.1	6.7	6.2
Number of passengers transported by trolleybuses per year, million people.	14.3	15.5	19.1	17.7	13.8
Connection
Number of telephone sets of the city public telephone network, thousand units.	24.7	32.7	35.1	38.4	40.9
Number of residential telephone sets of the city public telephone network, thousand units.	17.5	26.5	29.4	32.4	34.3
Number of payphones of the city telephone network (including universal ones), pcs.	197	163
Trade and services to the population
Retail trade turnover (in actual prices), million rubles.	203.1	1471.7	2910.1	5654.6	9283.1
Retail trade turnover (in actual prices), per capita, rub.	1750.2	12063.3	23852.1	48494.9	79342.7
Index of physical volume of retail trade turnover, % compared to the previous year	125.3	116.6
Index of physical volume of public catering turnover, % compared to the previous year	124.1	100.2
Number of stores, pavilions (at the end of the year), pcs.	45	41
Sales area of shops, pavilions (at the end of the year), sq.m.	4623	3333.2
Volume of paid services to the population (in actual prices), million rubles.	0.047	303.2	558.2	1186.8	2103.9
Volume of paid services to the population (in actual prices), per capita, rub.	0.4	2491.4	4575.2	10178.1	17981.9
Volume of household services to the population (in actual prices), million rubles.	0.008	39.5	72.3	173.5	461.1
Volume of household services to the population (in actual prices), per capita, rub.	0.07	324.6	592.3	1487.9	3940.7
Investments
Investments in fixed assets (in actual prices), million rubles.	0.136	254.2	724.7	1042	1635.3
Share of investments in fixed assets financed from budgetary funds in the total volume of investments, %	26.1	21	16.8	21	29.4

Data sources:

Regions of Russia. Main characteristics of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation: statistical collection. Goskomstat of Russia. - M:, 2003.
Regions of Russia. Basic socio-economic indicators of cities. Statistical collection. Rosstat. - M:, 2005. p. 169
Transport in Russia: Statistical collection. Goskomstat. - M:, 2003. pp. 112, 122
Transport in Russia: Statistical collection. Rosstat. - M:, 2005. pp. 119, 129
Regions of Russia. Basic socio-economic indicators of cities. 2006. Statistical collection. Rosstat. - M:, 2006. p. 169

Culture, science, education

Research Institute of Economics, History, Language and Literature.

Polytechnical Institute.

Drama Theater.

Karachay-Cherkess Historical, Cultural and Natural Museum (until 1988 Local History Museum, founded in 1918).

Museums, galleries, exhibition halls

State Karachay-Cherkess Historical, Cultural and Natural Museum-Reserve 369000, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Cherkessk, st.
Krasnoarmeyskaya, 58 Phone(s): (8782) 26-2598 Art gallery 369000, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Cherkessk, st. Krasnoarmeyskaya, 56 Phone(s): (8782) 26-3594

Architecture, sights

Cherkessk is divided into 3 microdistricts: central, southern and northern. Central includes the territory of the former village. House of Soviets (1948, architect K.Yu. Khubiev), city executive committee, regional library, Drama Theater (1982, architect A.A. Kherkheulidze), etc. The northern region (developed since 1957) is mainly industrial. Individual manor-type houses are concentrated in the southern microdistrict.

18 km from Cherkessk are the Batalpashinsky lakes (turned into a reservoir, the so-called Circassian Sea), a place of mass recreation and water sports.

To the south of Cherkessk, near the city of Ust-Dzheguta, there are burial mounds of the Bronze Age (3rd-2nd millennium BC), in which bronze jewelry and ceramics with carved ornaments were found.

Near the village of Krasnogorsky there are ruins of Russian fortifications (a round stone tower with slit-like loopholes) from the period of the Caucasian War (1832).

Population by year (thousands of inhabitants)
1897	11.5	1976	83	2001	121.8	2013	126.2
1926	19	1979	90.8	2003	116.2	2014	125.0
1931	29.2	1982	96	2005	117.1	2015	124.2
1939	28.6	1986	105	2006	116.9	2016	123.1
1959	41.7	1989	113.1	2007	116.3	2017	122.5
1962	47	1992	118.7	2008	116.3	2018	122.4
1967	57	1996	119.9	2010	116.5	2019	122.8
1970	67.2	1998	121.3	2011	129.1	2020	123.2
1973	75	2000	121.7	2012	127.6	2021	123.1

Cherkessk Airport

The city of Cherkessk does not have its own airfield. The nearest airport is in Mineralnye Vody. The distance from Cherkessk to the airport is 98 km. The international airport in Mineralnye Vody has the status of a federal facility. It is the largest airfield in the North Caucasus Federal District and one of the largest airports in the south of Russia. Airfield type: civil. Operating hours: 24 hours a day.

The airport serves aircraft of major Russian and international airlines: Ural Airlines, Aeroflot, Azimut, UTair, Pegasus Airlines, FlyDubai. Popular destinations of regular and charter flights: Istanbul, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yerevan, Yekaterinburg. Annual passenger traffic is more than 2.4 million people.

National picture

The population of the city of Cherkessk is people of 80 nationalities living in peace and harmony. Most of the inhabitants are Russians, Karachais, Circassians, Nogais and Abazas.

Ukrainians and Ossetians, Armenians and Tatars, Greeks and Azerbaijanis, Gypsies and Kabardians live in the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia. There are even representatives of small peoples - Laks, Kumyks, Avars and Dargins.

The population of Cherkessk professes Islam, Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism.

But mutual understanding and peace did not always reign in these lands.

Automobile highways

The following roads pass through Cherkessk:

P217 "Caucasus" is a highway that has the status of an object of federal significance. The length of the route is 1118 km. It is part of two European routes: E119 and E50. The road passes through the territory of the following regions of Russia: Chechnya, Krasnodar Territory, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Stavropol Territory, Ingushetia, Dagestan. The final point of the route is the state border with Azerbaijan.
P265 is a regional highway with a total length of 121 km. The route starts in Cherkessk and passes through Khabez, Kardoninskaya, Nizhny Arkhyz, Arkhyz.
A165 is a federal highway with a length of 79 km. The route leads from Pyatigorsk to Cherkessk.

What is the city of Cherkessk famous for?

On the territory of the city of Cherkessk there is a park of culture and recreation "Green Island", which is one of the largest park areas in the southern part of Russia. The area of the park is 90 hectares. There are a large number of walking areas, cafes, pedal boats, billiards, a shooting range, etc.
In the Green Island park there is the Lukomorye alley. The alley contains various wooden sculptures of fairy-tale characters. Visitors can also see scenes from popular fairy tales here.
In Cherkessk there is the Karachay-Cherkess Natural and Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve. The museum's collection includes more than a thousand different exhibits that tell visitors about the history of the region and nature.
On Lenin Street, opposite the City Hall, there is a light and music fountain, which was opened in 2009. Every evening a water show is held here, which hundreds of city residents gather to watch.
There is also an open-air amphitheater on the territory of the Green Island park. The building was built in antique style. The building is decorated with columns and statues of Greek gods. The amphitheater seats more than 1,000 people.
In 1992, the Drama Theater named after M. O. Akov opened in the city. Today, the theater troupe tours nearby cities and towns. The theater's repertoire includes works by Russian and foreign classics, puppet shows, and children's performances.
Near Cherkessk, in the Bolshoi Zelenchuk gorge, there is the Northern Zelenchuk Temple - the historical, spiritual and cultural heritage of local churches. The temple was built in Byzantine style from sandstone.

Religion in Cherkessk

The population of this small city professes different religions and is tolerant of each other's faith. There are few architectural and historical monuments in Cherkessk, but there are plenty of churches, mosques and temples.

There are Orthodox churches: St. Nicholas Cathedral, the Church of the Intercession and St. George the Victorious, 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 missed from afar. The mosque is located in the city center next to the A-155 highway leading to the Teberda ski resort. The mosque was built recently, in 2007, and it can accommodate five thousand worshipers at the same time.

There are 3 more mosques in different areas of the city.

Such religious diversity affects the mentality of the residents. They are good-natured and calmly treat visitors and non-religious people.