Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai encompasses the central pairt o the Fore-Caucasus an maist o the northren slopes o Caucasus Major. It borders on Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic o Kalmykie, the Republic o Dagestan, the Chechen Republic, the Republic o North Ossetie-Alanie, the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, an the Karachay–Cherkess Republic.

Stavropol is traversed bi the northeasterly lines o equal latitude an langitude.

Population

Accordin tae the 2010 Census, the population o the krai is 2,786,281;^[6] up frae 2,735,139 recordit in the 2002 Census^[10] an further up frae 2,410,379 recordit in the 1989 Census.^[11] The population o the krai is concentratit in the Kuban River an the Kuma River drainage basin, whilk uised tae be tradeetional Cossack land (see History o Cossacks). The Kuban Cossacks are nou generally conseidered tae be ethnic Roushies, even tho thay are still an important minority in thair awn richt in this aurie. Ither notable ethnic groups include the Armenies (maistly Christian Hamsheni) an Greeks wha haes been settlin here syne at least the 18t century.

Ethnic groups

The 2010 Census coontit thirty-three ethnic groups o mair nor 2,000 bodies each, makkin this federal subject ane o the maist multiethnic in Roushie. The indwallers identifee'd thairsels as belangin mair nor 140 different ethnic groups, as shawn in the follaein table:^[6]

• 26,855 fowk wur registered frae admeenistrative databases, an coudnae declare a ethnicity. It is estimatit that the proportion o ethnicities in this group is the same as that o the declared group.^[12]

Vital Statistics for 2007: Source

• Birth Rate: 11.22 per 1,000
• Daith Rate: 13.32 per 1,000
• Net Immigration: +3.5 per 1,000
• NGR: -0.21% per Year
• PGR: +0.14% per Year

Vital statistics for 2012

• Births: 34 768 (12.5 per 1000)
• Daiths: 33 356 (12.0 per 1000) ^[13]
• Total growthiness rate:

2009 - 1.45 | 2010 - 1.44 | 2011 - 1.43 |^[14] 2012 - 1.54(e)

Releegion

Accordin tae a 2012 offeecial survey^[15] 46.9% o the population o Stavropol Krai adheres tae the Roushie Orthodox Kirk, 7% are unaffiliatit generic Christians, 5% are Muslims, 1% adheres tae ither Orthodox Kirkes, an 1% o the population adheres tae Rodnovery. In addeetion, 19% o the population deems itsel tae be "spiritual but no releegious", 16% is atheist, an 7.1% follaes ither releegions or didna gie a answer tae the quaisten.^[15]

Irrigatit agricultur is weel developit in the region. As o the beginnin o 2001, Stavropol Krai haed 3,361 km o irrigation canals, o whilk 959 km wur lined (i.e., haed concrete or stane waws, raither than merely soil waws, tae reduce the loss o watter).^[17]

Amang the major irrigation canals are:^[17]

• Nevinnomyssk Canal (Невинномысский канал), the trunk o the Kuban-Yegorlyk Irrigation Seestem.
• The Great Stavropol Canal (Большой Ставропольский канал), transportin watter frae the Kuban River eastwaird athort the entire krai.
• The Terek-Kuma Canal an Kuma-Manych Canal, transportin watter frae the Terek River via the Kuma River tae the East Manych River.

• North Caucasus Krai
• Fyodor Kulakov, a umwhile Soviet govrenor o Stavropol Krai who wis Brezhnev's apparent heir.
• Stavropol Krai is the birthplace o twa General Secretars o the Communist Pairty o the Soviet Union: Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) an Mikhail Gorbachev (1985–1991).

• Государственная Дума Ставропольского края. №6-кз 12 октября 1994 г. «Устав (Основной Закон) Ставропольского края», в ред. Закона №117-кз от 21 декабря 2012 г. «О поправке к Уставу (Основному Закону) Ставропольского края». Опубликован: "Ставропольская правда", №198–199, 14 октября 1994 г. (State Duma of Stavropol Krai. #6-kz October 12, 1994 Charter (Basic Law) of Stavropol Krai, as amended by the Law #117-kz of December 21, 2012 On the Amendment of the Charter (Basic Law) of Stavropol Krai. ).

• News an events o Stavropol Krai Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Roushie) Stavropol Krai News Portal Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine

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