page_title: Cherkessk
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Cherkessk / Population
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Соборная мечеть в городе Черкесск
context_page_description: Cherkessk is the capital city of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia, as well as its political, economic, and cultural center. Its population was 129,069.
  It was previously known as Batalpashinskaya, Batalpashinsk, Sulimov, Yezhovo-Cherkessk.
context_section_description: The population of Cherkessk was 129,069 in the 2010 Census, 116,244 in the 2002 Census and 113,060 in the 1989 Soviet Census.
caption: Cherkessk Mosque
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