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Stavropol

Stavropol Krai, Russia
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About Stavropol

Stavropol is a city and the authoritative focus of Stavropol Krai, Russia. The name Stavropol is a Russian version of the Greek name, Stauropolis, was the name of a verifiably inconsequential archbishopric in Caria, a Roman area in present Anatolia, signifying "the City of the Cross". As per legend, warriors found a stone cross there while building the fortification in the city's future area.

It was established on October 22, 1777 after the Russo-Turkish War of 1768– 1774 as a military encampment, and was conceded city status in 1785. Prince Grigory Potemkin, who established Stavropol as one of ten fortifications worked among Azov and Mozdok in line with Catherine the Great, assumed a main job in the making of the city. Wear Cossacks, especially those from the Khopersky Regiment, settled the territory in and around the urban communities of Stavropol and Georgiyevsk with a mission to protect fringes of the Empire.

Stavropol is the authoritative focal point of the krai. Within the system of regulatory divisions, it is, together with one rustic territory, consolidated as the city of krai centrality of Stavropol—a managerial unit with the status equivalent to that of the districts. As a civil division, the city of krai noteworthiness of Stavropol is fused as Stavropol Urban Okrug. Stavropol's economy centers around the creation of vehicles, furniture, and development hardware and materials. The city depends on air transport , rail, and parkway associations with other Russian urban areas. Stavropol's populace incorporates countless getting away from the hardship or shakiness of the Russian outskirt locales and Caucasus countries toward the south.

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