Karachayevsk

Karachayevsk is a town in the Karachay - Cherkess Republic, Russia, situated on the Kuban River in the Caucasus Mountains. It was established in 1929 as Georgiyevskoye and by the goals of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of August 26, 1929, the name of Mikoyan-Shahar was endorsed and the town was given the status of a city. From October 5, 1944 to January 1, 1957, when the Karachays were estranged abroad into the Central Asian deserts, by the choice of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of November 6, 1943, Mikoyan-Shahar was renamed Klukhori and the domain of the previous Karachay Autonomous Region was doled out to the Georgian SSR.

The region is wealthy in early medieval landmarks, for example, the vestiges of Skhimar and the mid 10^th century Shoana Church. Inside the system of managerial divisions, Karachayevsk fills in as the regulatory focus of Karachayevsky District, despite the fact that it's anything but a piece of it. As an authoritative division, it is, as one with one town Teberda, three urban-type settlements Elbrussky, Ordzhonikidzevsky, and the resort settlement of Dombay, and two provincial regions the settlements of Mara-Ayagyy and Malokurganny, consolidated independently as the town of republic centrality of Karachayevsk, a managerial unit with the status equivalent to that of the districts. As a metropolitan division, the town of republic criticalness of Karachayevsk is joined as Karachayevsky Urban Okrug.