Zelenchukskaya (russian: Зеленчу́кская; krc, Зеленчук, ''Zelençuk'') is a

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stanitsa A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Arm ...

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Zelenchuksky District Zelenchuksky District (russian: Зеленчу́кский райо́н; krc, Зеленчук район, ''Zelençuk rayon'') is an administrativeLaw #84-RZ and municipalLaw #43-RZ district (raion), one of the ten in the Karachay-Cherkess Repu ...

of the

Karachay–Cherkess Republic The Karachay-Cherkess Republic (russian: Карача́ево-Черке́сская Респу́блика, ''Karachayevo-Cherkesskaya Respublika''; krc, Къарачай-Черкес Республика, ''Qaraçay-Çerkes Respublika''; Cir ...

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,Appendix to Law #84-RZ, Section I.2.3 located on the

Bolshoy Zelenchuk River The Bolshoy Zelenchuk (russian: Большой Зеленчук) is a river in the North Caucasus, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Kuban into which it flows at Nevinnomyssk. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The

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of the

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is located to the south of the stanitsa.Official website of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the RAN.
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In 2015, it detected signals that might have come from a possible advanced extraterrestrial civilization, which are now being investigated by

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History

The stanitsa was founded on May 1, 1859 and named after the river on which it stands.

Demographics

In 2002, the population included: *

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(77.1%) *

Karachays The Karachays ( krc, Къарачайлыла, Qaraçaylıla or таулула, , 'Mountaineers') are an indigenous Caucasian Turkic ethnic group in the North Caucasus. They speak Karachay-Balkar, a Turkic language. They are mostly situated ...

(17.4%) *all other ethnicities comprising less than 1% of population each

Climate

Zelenchukskaya has a warm-summer

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