Belorechensk

The city is located on the White River in the foothills of the Main Caucasian Range. Distance to Krasnodar - 90 km, to Maikop - 12. Node railway station (Belorechenskaya) of the North Caucasus Railway on the Armavir line with an offshoot of an electrified branch up the valley of the Belaya River (via Maikop) to the village of Kamennomostsky. The head of the municipality of Belorechensk is Ivan Ivanovich Imgrunt. In the area - balneoclimatic resort area Velikovechnoye. Until the second half of the XIX century. on the site of the city was the Adyghe (Circassian) settlement of Shithal (Shythyal - the modern name of Belorechensk in the Adyghe language). In the 1860s, the intensification of military operations on the part of Russia began (see the Caucasian War, the Caucasian Muhajira). 1862 - The Cossacks of the 42nd Cavalry Regiment of the Kuban Cossack Army laid an earthen fortress, then the village of Belorechenskaya, the first settlers in which arrived in May 1862. It was part of the Maykop department of the Kuban region. 1864 - The population of the village is 1415 people. 1910 - The railway line from Armavir to Belorechenskaya was completed - the second stage of the Stavropol-Tuapsinskaya railway. 1917 - In the village there are about 3,500 households, it is home to about 14,000 people. 1958 - Stanitsa was given the status of a city and the name Belorechensk.