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&nbsp;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:

*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&nbsp;km o irrigation canals, o whilk 959&nbsp;km wur lined (i.e., haed concrete or stane waws, raither than merely soil waws, tae reduce the loss o watter).

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).

## Notes

## References
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## Freemit airtins

*News an events o Stavropol Krai 
* Stavropol Krai News Portal