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unusual facts about Stavropol


Boris Uvarov

He worked as entomologist in Stavropol and put locust control on a sound scientific basis.


Aleksandr Gorbachyov

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Gorbachyov (b. 1970), Russian football player and coach with FC KAMAZ, FC Dynamo Stavropol, FC Baltika, FC Fakel Voronezh and FC Elista

Alexander Chernogorov

Alexander Leonidovich Chernogorov (born July 13, 1959 in Vozdvizhenka, Stavropol Krai, Russia) was the governor of Stavropol Krai in the southern European part of Russia.

Balachka

Further south Karachay–Cherkessia and Stavropol - the traditional home of the former Caucasus Line Cossack Host, their accent has a greater Circassian influence, and is thus considered a balachka not by the initial definition but due to the term being becoming applied universally to all Cossack dialects.

Blagodarny

Blagodarny Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the Town of Blagodarny in Blagodarnensky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia is incorporated as

Ipatovo

Ipatovo Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the Town of Ipatovo in Ipatovsky District of Stavropol Krai, Russia is incorporated as

Muslim society №3

This is on the account of members committing a grouping explosions of apartment houses in Moscow and Volgodonsk in 1999 (232 victims), 2 acts of terrorism in the Moscow underground in 2004 (52 victims, 300 wounded men), acts of terrorism in Krasnodar (3 victims, 20 wounded men), Voronezh (1 victim, 6 wounded men), Stavropol Territory, the Rostov-on-Don area.

Palmiro Togliatti

The Russian city of Stavropol-on-Volga, where Togliatti had been instrumental in establishing the AutoVAZ (Lada) automobile manufacturing plant in collaboration with Fiat, was renamed Tolyatti (as transliterated from Тольятти, the Russian spelling of his name) in his honor in 1964, after his death.

Pontic Greek

Pontic is still spoken by large numbers of people in Ukraine: mainly Mariupol, but also other places in Ukraine such as Odessa and Donetsk, Russia (around Stavropol) and Georgia.

Yevgeni Kuznetsov

Yevgeny Semyonovich Kuznetsov (1938–2005), Russian politician, former head of Stavropol Krai


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