At the confluence Kuban and Teberdy among the high rocky mountains, the final spurs of the Front Range, lies immersed in greenery Karachaevsk. It is the second largest and most important city Karachay-Cherkessia. In November 2002, the city celebrated 75th anniversary. The initiator of the construction of Karachaevsk, its founder was Kurman Alievich Kurdzhiev, in those years he was the first chairman of the Karachay-Cherkess Regional Executive Committee. In order to make the final decision on the place where the new city will be founded, according to mountain traditions when solving crucial issues in the life of the people, he convened a council of the oldest and respected people of Karachay. 4-5 people were invited from each aul. After the initiative of Kurman Kurdzhiev was approved by the council of elders, the idea of building a new city was supported by the first secretary of the Ordzhonikidze regional committee of the CPSU (b) Anastas Mikoyan. July 17, 1927 at the second session Karachay Regional Council of Workers' Deputies held in the village Uchkyoken, it was decided: “To assign the name to the new city of Karachay Mikoyan-Shahar by filing a corresponding petition with the administrative commission of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. "City of Mikoyan" was built as the administrative center of Karachaevskaya autonomous region, as the center of Karachay, which in fact it still is. By the solemn opening day, each village of Karachay sent its delegates.
Hikers walked along narrow gorges, along paths and steep mountains, carts creaked, horsemen pranced on magnificent horses. All of them were drawn to the cherished point - the new city. We spent the night in the mountains, laid out bonfires, gathered around the bonfires, dreamed out loud - what kind of capital is it? Meanwhile, the capital was preparing to receive guests. Some of the new buildings were still in the woods, many were gaping gaps of empty windows. But most of the houses have already been completed, the city has been built. In the evenings, electric light floods its new streets, and in these evening hours the shakhar really looks like a fairy tale: all around, moving close to the buildings, it is surrounded by high rocky mountains. At night, you can still hear the cry of owls, the cries of wild animals, the scream of awakened eagles.
On November 7, 1927, the grand opening of the capital of Karachay took place. Several thousand people gathered. Many came hundreds of miles away with their wives and children. In groups they settled down near the Kuban River and Teberda. Women played the harmonicas, men sang along with them, jumps and dances were arranged. Bulls and rams were slaughtered for kurmanlyk (sacrifice), a big feast was arranged, and the cup of congratulations went in a circle, and both old and young drank from it. Wrestlers entered the arena. On the opening day, the chairman of the regional executive committee, Kurman Kurdzhiev, riding a dashing white horse, cut the ribbon with a saber and congratulated everyone on the birth of a new city. Guests from Moscow and Kharkov, from Rostov, Kuban and other areas welcomed the Karachai people. Interpreters worked tirelessly, translating the speeches of the guests. The celebration lasted for several days. Crowds of people walked the streets and looked with surprise at this miracle among the impenetrable mountains. The new city is original and beautiful, it is all new, all of the same style: two-story houses made of granite with spacious, bright rooms, smooth streets, wide roads. Mikoyan-Shahar is not a fairy tale, not a legend. Mikoyan-Shahar is a fact. After the deportation of the Karachay people, the city was renamed Kluhori. After the return of the Karachays from exile in 1957, the city was renamed Karachaevsk.
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Karachays, Karachays
369200, 369201, 369221, 369238, 369241
Settlements that are part of the Karachay urban district: the city of Teberda, the village of Dombay, the village of Ordzhonikidzevsky, the village of Elbrussky, the village of Malokurganny, the village of Mara-Ayagy.
Geography
The city is located on the banks of three rivers: Kuban, Teberda and Mary, at an altitude of 870 m above sea level. It occupies an area of 1184 hectares. The Kuban River is the main water artery here, as in the entire North-Western Caucasus: all the waters of this region are tributaries of the Kuban.
Karachaevsk is located in the North Jurassic depression, on the cape of the river terrace. The mountains surrounding the city on three sides, except for the northern one, are the terminal spurs of the Front Range. The mountains are composed of volcanic rocks that break through the Jurassic sedimentary deposits. Karachaevsk is also located in the zone of development of the Lower Jurassic intrusions of the Teberdino-Kuban depression, in many areas of which 50-60% of the outlets of mineral water sources are concentrated.
The end point of the watershed between Kuban and Teberda, Mount Komsomolskaya, divides the city into two parts and is the geographical center of the city. From a bird's eye view, the city looks like a horseshoe stretching along the valleys of two rivers. Geographically, Karachaevsk is located in the center of the highland regions of Karachay-Cherkessia and is their transport hub. November 7, 1927 was founded by Kurman-Ali Kurdzhiev as a city and named Mikoyan-Shahar in honor of A. I. Mikoyan. In 1944, after the deportation of the Karachays, it was included in the Georgian SSR and renamed Kluhori .
In 1957 it was renamed to Karachaevsk(according to the ethnonym Karachays).
Population
| Population | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 1939 | 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | 1989 | 1992 |
| 2400 | ↗ 5919 | ↗ 7169 | ↗ 14 762 | ↗ 16 873 | ↗ 21 582 | ↗ 21 600 |
| 1996 | 1998 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2005 |
| ↘ 20 900 | ↘ 15 500 | ↘ 14 800 | ↘ 14 600 | ↗ 22 113 | ↘ 22 100 | ↘ 20 900 |
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| ↘ 20 500 | ↘ 20 300 | ↘ 20 000 | ↘ 19 677 | ↗ 21 483 | ↗ 21 500 | ↘ 20 852 |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |||
| ↘ 20 316 | ↗ 20 357 | ↗ 20 641 | ↗ 20 976 |
As of January 1, 2016, in terms of population, the city ranked 651 out of 1,112 cities in the Russian Federation.
National composition
- Karachays - 16,077 people (72.7%),
- Russians - 3610 people (16.3%),
- Ossetians - 658 people. (3%)
- Circassians - 299 people. (1.4%),
- Nogais - 239 people. (1.1%),
- Abaza - 144 people. (0.7%),
- Ukrainians - 130 people. (0.6%),
- Greeks - 27 people (0.1%),
- other nationalities - 929 people. (4.2%).
Economy
In 2002, 36 industrial enterprises operated in the city, and 2 intracity bus routes operated. Capacitor and reinforced concrete (OJSC "Dzhegutinsky Zavod ZZhBI") plants, food industry enterprises (bakery, dairy and brewery; production of mineral water).
Radio
67.34 Radio Russia / Cherkessk
105.5 Russian radio
105.9 Radio Kavkaz Hit
Honorary citizens of the city
- Magometov Saltan Kekkezovich (1920-1989) - Soviet military leader, colonel general ik
- Sariyev Ruslan - three-time world champion in arm wrestling, Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation
- Chivadze Alexander - Captain of the USSR national team, Soviet Georgian football player, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
- Kurdzhiev Sagit - Master of Sports of the USSR in freestyle and national wrestling. Honored coach of Russia.
- Berdiev Shamil-master of sports of international class in freestyle wrestling
culture
Higher education is represented by the Karachay-Cherkess State University. U. D. Alieva.
sights
- The building of the Administration of the Karachay city district
- Memorial complex to the victims of deportation
- Cinema building. Khalilova
- KCHGU them. U. D. Alieva
- Alley of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of Russia
- Alley of noble people of Karachay
- Obelisk to those who died during the Great Patriotic War
- Obelisk to Red Army Soldiers
- Memorial to the victims of deportation
- Medieval settlement
On the slopes of Mount Dardon, slightly below the Dardon burial ground, there is a medieval settlement, which stretches along the left bank of the Teberda for 1-1.5 km. Along the banks of the Teberda, as well as higher, along the slope of Mount Dardon, archaeologists discovered the remains of buildings: masonry, ancient foundations, "fences", fences, hearths with ash and soot, various household items, fragments of pottery, animal bones, broken and hewn stone.
archaeological finds
During numerous archaeological expeditions to the mountains of Karachay on the territory of Karachaevsk, bronze spearheads of the Kuban type were found. In the vicinity of Karachaevsk, a terracotta gilded round plaque with a relief image of the Gorgon Medusa of the Sarmatian period was discovered. In the vicinity of Karachaevsk, a multifaceted late medieval crypt was discovered, which, unfortunately, has not reached us.
In 1975, on the right bank of the Kuban, at its confluence with the Teberda, the foundation of a small single-apse temple was discovered.
On the southwestern outskirts of the city, a one and a half meter stone cross was found, reminiscent of the Maltese in shape. The cross is tentatively dated no later than the 10th century. n. e. Carved from a solid monolith, such crosses were inserted into stone glasses. Five such crosses were found on the territory of the CIS, two of them are in Karachay.
On the southern outskirts of Karachaevsk, not far from Kamennomostsky, a bronze encolpion cross was found.
twin cities
Topographic maps
- Map sheet K-37-12 Karachaevsk. Scale: 1: 100,000. State of the area in 1990. Edition 1995
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Notes
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- www.MojGorod.ru/karacherk_r/karachajesk/index.html People's Encyclopedia"My city". Karachaevsk
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An excerpt characterizing Karachaevsk
What officers? Who was brought? I don’t understand anything,” said the countess.Natasha laughed, the countess also smiled faintly.
- I knew that you would allow ... so I will say so. - And Natasha, kissing her mother, got up and went to the door.
In the hall she met her father, who returned home with bad news.
- We sat down! said the Count with involuntary annoyance. “And the club is closed, and the police are coming out.
- Dad, is it okay that I invited the wounded to the house? Natasha told him.
“Nothing, of course,” the Count said absently. “That’s not the point, but now I ask you not to deal with trifles, but to help pack and go, go, go tomorrow ...” And the count gave the butler and people the same order. At dinner, Petya returned and told his news.
He said that today the people were dismantling weapons in the Kremlin, that although Rostopchin’s poster said that he would call the cry in two days, but that an order had probably been made that tomorrow all the people would go to the Three Mountains with weapons, and that there there will be a big fight.
The Countess looked with timid horror at the cheerful, heated face of her son while he was saying this. She knew that if she said a word that she asked Petya not to go to this battle (she knew that he rejoiced at this upcoming battle), then he would say something about men, about honor, about the fatherland - something like that. meaningless, masculine, stubborn, against which one cannot object, and the matter will be spoiled, and therefore, hoping to arrange so that she could leave before that and take Petya with her as a protector and patron, she did not say anything to Petya, and after dinner called the count and with tears she begged him to take her away as soon as possible, on the same night, if possible. With a feminine, involuntary cunning of love, she, who had shown perfect fearlessness until now, said that she would die of fear if they did not leave that night. She, without pretending, was now afraid of everything.
Mme Schoss, who visited her daughter, increased the Countess's fear even more with stories about what she had seen on Myasnitskaya Street in a pub. Returning down the street, she could not get home from the drunken crowd of people raging at the office. She took a cab and drove around the lane home; and the driver told her that the people were breaking barrels in the drinking office, which was so ordered.
After dinner, all the Rostov households with enthusiastic haste set to work packing their things and preparing for departure. The old count, suddenly set to work, continued to walk from the yard to the house and back after dinner, stupidly shouting at the people in a hurry and hurrying them even more. Petya was in charge in the yard. Sonya did not know what to do under the influence of the count's conflicting orders, and was completely at a loss. People, shouting, arguing and making noise, ran around the rooms and the yard. Natasha, with her characteristic passion in everything, suddenly also set to work. At first, her intervention in the matter of packing was met with disbelief. Everyone expected a joke from her and did not want to listen to her; but with stubbornness and passion she demanded obedience to herself, became angry, almost wept that they did not listen to her, and finally achieved that they believed in her. Her first feat, which cost her great effort and gave her power, was laying carpets. The count had expensive gobelins and Persian rugs in his house. When Natasha got down to business, there were two open boxes in the hall: one almost to the top with porcelain, the other with carpets. There was still a lot of porcelain set on the tables, and everything was still being carried from the pantry. It was necessary to start a new, third box, and people followed him.
“Sonya, wait, let’s put everything in this way,” said Natasha.
“It’s impossible, young lady, they already tried it,” said the barmaid.
– No, stop, please. - And Natasha began to get dishes and plates wrapped in paper from the drawer.
“The dishes should be here, in the carpets,” she said.
“Yes, and God forbid, put the carpets into three boxes,” said the barman.
- Wait, please. - And Natasha quickly, deftly began to disassemble. “It’s not necessary,” she said about Kiev plates, “yes, it’s in carpets,” she said about Saxon dishes.
- Yes, leave it, Natasha; Well, that’s enough, we’ll put it down, ”Sonya said reproachfully.
- Oh, young lady! the butler said. But Natasha did not give up, threw out all the things and quickly began to pack again, deciding that bad home carpets and extra dishes should not be taken at all. When everything was taken out, they began to lay again. And indeed, throwing out almost everything cheap, what was not worth taking with you, everything of value was put into two boxes. Only the lid of the carpet box did not close. It was possible to take out a few things, but Natasha wanted to insist on her own. She packed, shifted, pressed, forced the barman and Petya, whom she dragged along into the business of packing, to press the lid and herself made desperate efforts.
“Come on, Natasha,” Sonya told her. - I see you're right, take out the top one.
“I don’t want to,” Natasha shouted, holding her loose hair over her sweaty face with one hand, pressing the carpets with the other. - Yes, press it, Petka, press it! Vasilyich, press! she shouted. The carpets pressed down and the lid closed. Natasha, clapping her hands, squealed with joy, and tears gushed from her eyes. But it lasted for a second. She immediately set to work on another matter, and they completely believed her, and the count was not angry when they told him that Natalya Ilyinishna had canceled his order, and the courtyards came to Natasha to ask: should the cart be tied or not and was it enough imposed? The matter was argued thanks to Natasha's orders: unnecessary things were left and the most expensive things were packed in the most cramped way.
But no matter how hard all the people fussed, by late night not everything could be packed. The countess fell asleep, and the count, postponing his departure until morning, went to bed.
Sonya and Natasha slept without undressing in the sofa room. That night, a new wounded man was being transported through Povarskaya, and Mavra Kuzminishna, who was standing at the gate, turned him around to the Rostovs. This wounded man, according to Mavra Kuzminishna, was a very significant person. He was carried in a carriage completely covered with an apron and with the top down. An old man, a respectable valet, was sitting on the goats with the driver. Behind the cart were a doctor and two soldiers.
- Come to us, please. The gentlemen are leaving, the whole house is empty,” said the old woman, turning to the old servant.
- Yes, - answered the valet, sighing, - and not to bring tea! We have our own house in Moscow, but far away, and no one lives.
“We are welcome, our masters have a lot of everything, please,” said Mavra Kuzminishna. - Are you very unhealthy? she added.
The valet waved his hand.
- Do not bring tea! You need to ask the doctor. And the valet got off the goat and went up to the wagon.
“Good,” said the doctor.
The valet again went up to the carriage, looked into it, shook his head, ordered the coachman to turn into the yard, and stopped beside Mavra Kuzminishna.
- Lord Jesus Christ! she said.
Mavra Kuzminishna offered to bring the wounded man into the house.
“The Lord won’t say anything…” she said. But it was necessary to avoid climbing the stairs, and therefore the wounded man was carried into the wing and laid in the former room of m me Schoss. This wounded man was Prince Andrei Bolkonsky.
The last day of Moscow has come. It was clear, cheerful autumn weather. It was Sunday. As on ordinary Sundays, the gospel was announced for mass in all churches. No one, it seemed, could yet understand what awaited Moscow.
Only two indicators of the state of society expressed the situation in which Moscow was: the mob, that is, the class of poor people, and the prices of objects. Factory workers, servants and peasants in a huge crowd, in which officials, seminarians, noblemen got mixed up, on this day, early in the morning, went to the Three Mountains. After standing there and not waiting for Rostopchin and making sure that Moscow would be surrendered, this crowd scattered around Moscow, to drinking houses and taverns. Prices that day also indicated the state of affairs. The prices of weapons, gold, carts and horses kept going up, while the prices of paper money and city things kept going down, so that in the middle of the day there were cases when cabbies took out expensive goods, like cloth, from the floor, and for a peasant horse paid five hundred rubles; furniture, mirrors, bronzes were given away for free.
In the sedate and old house of the Rostovs, the disintegration of the former living conditions expressed itself very weakly. With regard to people, it was only that three people from a huge household disappeared during the night; but nothing was stolen; and in relation to the prices of things, it turned out that the thirty carts that came from the villages were enormous wealth, which many envied and for which Rostov was offered huge money. Not only did they offer a lot of money for these carts, from the evening and early morning of September 1, orderlies and servants from wounded officers came to the Rostovs' courtyard and dragged the wounded themselves, placed at the Rostovs and in neighboring houses, and begged the Rostovs' people to take care of that they were given carts to leave Moscow. The butler, who was approached with such requests, although he felt sorry for the wounded, resolutely refused, saying that he would not even dare to report this to the count. No matter how pitiful the remaining wounded were, it was obvious that if you gave up one cart, there was no reason not to give up another, that's all - to give up your crews. Thirty carts could not save all the wounded, and in the general disaster it was impossible not to think about yourself and your family. So thought the butler for his master.
