Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai (, Stavropolsky kray) is a federal subject o Roushie (a krai). Its admeenistrative center is the ceety o Stavropol. Population: 2,786,281 (2010 Census).

Geografie
Stavropol Krai encompasses the central pairt o the Fore-Caucasus an maist o the northren slopes o Caucasus Major. It borders on Rostov Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic o Kalmykie, the Republic o Dagestan, the Chechen Republic, the Republic o North Ossetie-Alanie, the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, an the Karachay–Cherkess Republic.

Stavropol is traversed bi the northeasterly lines o equal latitude an langitude.

Demographics

Population
Accordin tae the 2010 Census, the population o the krai is 2,786,281; up frae 2,735,139 recordit in the 2002 Census an further up frae 2,410,379 recordit in the 1989 Census. The population o the krai is concentratit in the Kuban River an the Kuma River drainage basin, whilk uised tae be tradeetional Cossack land (see History o Cossacks). The Kuban Cossacks are nou generally conseidered tae be ethnic Roushies, even tho thay are still an important minority in thair awn richt in this aurie. Ither notable ethnic groups include the Armenies (maistly Christian Hamsheni) an Greeks wha haes been settlin here syne at least the 18t century.

Ethnic groups
The 2010 Census coontit thirty-three ethnic groups o mair nor 2,000 bodies each, makkin this federal subject ane o the maist multiethnic in Roushie. The indwallers identifee'd thairsels as belangin mair nor 140 different ethnic groups, as shawn in the follaein table:
 Population Ethnicity Percentage o total population 2,232,153 Roushies 80.9% 161,324 Armenies 5.9% 30,373 Ukrainians 1.1% 49,302 Dargins 1.8% 33,573 Greeks 1.2% 22,006 Nogais 0.8% 30,879 Roma fowk 1.1% 15,598 Karachay 0.6% 17,800 Azerbaijanis 0.6% 15,048 Turkmens 0.5% 11,980 Chechens 0.4% 11,795 Tatars 0.4% 7,988 Osseties 0.3% 10,419 Turks 0.4% 7,104 Belaroushies 0.3% 6,759 Koreans 0.2% 55,946 Ithers 2%
26,855 fowk wur registered frae admeenistrative databases, an coudnae declare a ethnicity. It is estimatit that the proportion o ethnicities in this group is the same as that o the declared group.

Vital Statistics for 2007: Source
Birth Rate: 11.22 per 1,000
Daith Rate: 13.32 per 1,000
Net Immigration: +3.5 per 1,000
NGR: -0.21% per Year
PGR: +0.14% per Year

Vital statistics for 2012
Births: 34 768 (12.5 per 1000)
Daiths: 33 356 (12.0 per 1000) 
Total growthiness rate:
2009 - 1.45 | 2010 - 1.44 | 2011 - 1.43 | 2012 - 1.54(e)

Releegion

Accordin tae a 2012 offeecial survey 46.9% o the population o Stavropol Krai adheres tae the Roushie Orthodox Kirk, 7% are unaffiliatit generic Christians, 5% are Muslims, 1% adheres tae ither Orthodox Kirkes, an 1% o the population adheres tae Rodnovery. In addeetion, 19% o the population deems itsel tae be "spiritual but no releegious", 16% is atheist, an 7.1% follaes ither releegions or didna gie a answer tae the quaisten.

Admeenistrative diveesions

Agricultur
Irrigatit agricultur is weel developit in the region. As o the beginnin o 2001, Stavropol Krai haed 3,361 km o irrigation canals, o whilk 959 km wur lined (i.e., haed concrete or stane waws, raither than merely soil waws, tae reduce the loss o watter).Общая информация О водных ресурсах края  (General information about the water resources of the krai), from the regional government site. 

Amang the major irrigation canals are:
Nevinnomyssk Canal (Невинномысский канал), the trunk o the Kuban-Yegorlyk Irrigation Seestem.
The Great Stavropol Canal (Большой Ставропольский канал), transportin watter frae the Kuban River eastwaird athort the entire krai.
The Terek-Kuma Canal an Kuma-Manych Canal, transportin watter frae the Terek River via the Kuma River tae the East Manych River.

See an aw
North Caucasus Krai
Fyodor Kulakov, a umwhile Soviet govrenor o Stavropol Krai who wis Brezhnev's apparent heir.
Stavropol Krai is the birthplace o twa General Secretars o the Communist Pairty o the Soviet Union: Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) an Mikhail Gorbachev (1985–1991).

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 References 

 Freemit airtins 

News an events o Stavropol Krai 
 Stavropol Krai News Portal 


Category:States an territories established in 1934
Category:Auries o tradeetional spread o Ukrainians an Ukrainian leid