Sights of Cherkessk

Natural attractions of Cherkessk and its surroundings

Sofia Lakes

These are three beautiful alpine lakes. They are famous for the fact that in each of them the water has its own shade of color: black, bright blue and turquoise.

Teberdinsky Reserve

Located 100 km from Cherkessk. If you are a nature lover, then you will be delighted by the beauty of this reserve. You can enjoy the silence, clean mountain air and the wild beauty of alpine lakes, forests, meadows and snow-covered slopes.

Mineral springs in the village of Arkhyz

It is 120 km from Cherkessk. These Arkhyze mineral springs are a place of pilgrimage for tourists.

Baduk Lakes

This is a cascade of three lakes at an altitude of 2000 m. The hiking route to these lakes will take at least a day. You can get to the beginning of the walking route by personal or rented car.

* Family holidays with children and entertainment in Cherkessk

Alley "Lukomorye"

Located in the Green Island Culture and Recreation Park. Your kids will love the cartoonish wooden sculptures.

Light and music fountain

Located in the central square. Light, water and musical performances are held every evening. A very popular entertainment for locals and city guests.

RTI Park

Located on Gutyakulova Street. Created specifically for families with children

Note. Also available to vacationers and city guests are numerous restaurants, cinemas, theaters, entertainment centers, bowling alleys, cafes, shopping centers, and karaoke clubs.

Architectural, historical and religious sights of Cherkessk

Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

Located in Cherkessk, on Kirov Square. This majestic temple was originally built in 1896. His veche bell weighed 13.6 tons!

In 1934, the authorities destroyed the temple. Only 50 years later its restoration began. In 2012, the revived cathedral was reconsecrated and became operational. The total area of ​​the cathedral is 1.5 thousand sq/m.

This magnificent temple is a real pearl of the city of Cherkessk.

Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Located in the city park, on Lenin Avenue. The history of this church is simply amazing. It was built in the village of Khoperskaya in 1730. The material for construction was black oak. For a hundred years the temple stood in the village of Khoperskaya, and in 1829 it was moved to Stavropol. In 1831, the Khoper Cossacks dismantled the church and carried it on foot to the village of Batalpashinskaya.

The church will soon be three centuries old, but it still stands. An equally amazing fact is that throughout its history the church has never closed and has always been active.

Externally, the church is very beautiful - the walls and domes are painted in a heavenly color.

Cathedral Mosque

Located in Cherkessk on Lenin Avenue. It is also an amazing iconic landmark of Cherkessk. This mosque does not have an ancient history - it was founded in 2007, and became operational in 2013. But this is more than compensated for by its magnificence. The Cathedral Mosque spreads over an area of ​​4.2 thousand sq/m! The mosque building is 32 m high, and the height of the 4 minarets at its corners is 52 m! It is unlikely that you will find another mosque of the same beauty in the North Caucasus.

Note. The main religious churches of Cherkessk are listed above. There is also the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh on Gutyakulova Street, the Church of St. George the Victorious on Dovator Street and a small mosque on Polevaya Street.

The Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh is interesting because it was built from Solikamsk pine, without the use of nails.

Northern Zelenchuk Temple

Located in the Bolshoi Zelenchuk gorge, in the village of Nizhny Arkhyz near Cherkessk. This temple is worth mentioning separately, as it is a valuable historical and cultural heritage of these places. The history of this temple goes back more than a thousand years! It is built of sandstone, well preserved and looks very picturesque against the backdrop of the mountains. In total, there are 3 ancient temples in the Zelenchuk Gorge - the Northern Temple is the largest.

Fresco "Face of Christ"

A unique ancient fresco was discovered in 1999 in the Zelenchuksky district on one of the rocks. Experts believe that it was created in the ninth century.

Museums of the city of Cherkessk

Karachay-Cherkess Historical, Cultural and Natural Museum-Reserve

The oldest museum in Cherkessk. It was founded in 1916. Now this museum can rightfully be called a museum association. It includes more than 9 dozen buildings and more than 80 thousand exhibits. The museum contains many artifacts of past times - historical documents, photographs, etc.

The main building of the museum is located in Cherkessk, on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street.

Museum of Local Lore

Located in Cherkessk, on Lenin Street. In the museum you can examine bronze and ceramic products from the Kuban and Kuban cultures. The collection of traditional clothes made of rich gold fabric and jewelry made of precious metals is very interesting. The museum has more than one hundred thousand exhibits.

Art Gallery

Located in Cherkessk, on Krasnoarmeyskaya street. It was opened in the 90s of the last century. Occupies a historical building, built at the beginning of the last century. In the museum you can see paintings by Circassian and Russian artists.

HELPFUL INFORMATION

History of the city of Cherkessk

The settlement was founded in 1825 on the site of a former military fortification - the Batalpashinsky Cossack redoubt, which bore this name since 1804 on the basis that 14 years earlier, in September 1790, the army of General Ivan German here defeated the army of the Turkish seraskir Batal - Pasha.
The original name of the settlement was the village of Batalpashinskaya - a rare case when a settlement was named after the vanquished, and not the winner. Almost a quarter of a century later, the village was renamed the city of Batalpashinsk, and a year later, on June 16, 1922, by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Batalpashinsk was officially renamed into the provincial city of the united Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region, becoming its administrative center.

In 1934, Batalpashinsk was transformed into the city of Sulimov in honor of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR D. Sulimov. Three years later, Sulimov was repressed, the city began to be called Yezhovo-Cherkessk, in honor of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs N. Yezhov. In 1939, Yezhov was arrested, and only the second part of the name remained outside the city - Cherkessk, which has not changed since then. At the end of the thirties, the first large industrial enterprise in Karachay-Cherkessia opened in the city - an iron foundry, now a refrigeration engineering plant.

During the Great Patriotic War, Cherkessk was occupied on August 11, 1942, liberated on January 17, 1943. Hundreds of townspeople voluntarily went to the front in the ranks of the cavalry corps of generals Dovator, Oslikovsky, Kirichenko. During the occupation, the Circassian city and district partisan detachments were formed, which, as part of the partisan association, took on the first blows of selected regular units of the German Edelweiss division. The streets of the city are now named in honor of the war heroes I. Lobodin, Kh. Bogatyrev, I. Laar, O. Kosayev, D. Starikov and others. The monument “Fire of Eternal Glory” in Victory Park, a monument to the soldiers of the Soviet Army near the mass grave, is dedicated to the memory of the defenders and liberators of Cherkessk.

In 1956, a master plan for the development of the city was developed, according to which Cherkessk was conditionally divided into three microdistricts. Central, as the name implies, is the industrial, transport, administrative, economic and cultural center of the city, where the largest public buildings are concentrated - the republican and city administrations, the Main Post Office, the Drama Theater, etc. The northern microdistrict is mainly industrial, and the southern one is an area of ​​new buildings and individual houses.

Since 1957, Cherkessk has been the center of the Karachay-Cherkess Autonomous Region, and in 1991 it officially received the status of the capital of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic.

In 2001, deputies of the city Duma, having considered more than thirty options, approved the coat of arms of Cherkessk, the author of which was the system administrator of the general department of the city administration, Dmitry Kosarev.

The coat of arms is a red shield, at the top of which there are four square teeth - a memory that the village of Batalpashinskaya, on the site of which Cherkessk later appeared, was founded as a line designed to hold back enemies. In the center of the shield is a golden stele, a monument installed at the central entrance to the Green Island Culture and Recreation Park and personifying the eternal friendship of peoples living together. Below are three blue stripes - three rivers flowing through the city: Kuban, Abaza and Ovechka.

Modern Cherkessk is a developing city with a total area of ​​69.8 square meters. kilometers with a population of 126.2 thousand people - representatives of more than 80 nationalities. Five of them are subject-forming. These are Russians, Karachais, Circassians, Abazas and Nogais.

Cherkessk is connected by a railway line with Nevinnomyssk, and by highways with Krasnodar, Nevinnomyssk and Pyatigorsk.

Cherkessk occupies a leading position in the economic potential of Karachay-Cherkessia; about 56% of the republic's industrial output is produced here, 56% of the total area of ​​residential buildings is introduced and more than 76% of the total turnover of the consumer market is formed.

There are about three thousand organizations and enterprises in the city. The most famous of them are the automobile, group, OJSC "Cherkessian Plant of Rubber Technical Products", the wool processing and yarn production factory "Quest-A" LLC, "Kholodmash" OJSC, "Kaskad" OJSC, "YUG-oil-PLAST" LLC. , LLC "Bumfa Group", JSC PTSHF "Ine", JSC "Visma", JSC "Aqualine", JSC RAPP "Kavkaz-myaso", JSC "Yug-Moloko", LLC "Khladokombinat", LLC "Cherkesskkhleb", Confectionery factory "Dahanago."

The municipal education system consists of 21 preschool institutions, 18 general education and additional education institutions, where more than 25 thousand children come daily.

City healthcare includes 6 municipal institutions, 5 of which provide medical care to the population and a specialized children's home to provide medical and social assistance to children without parental care.

In the spring of 2015, independent experts conducted a survey of citizens about living conditions in Cherkessk. About 250 residents of the republican center of various social groups and ages answered the questions. More than two-thirds of citizens believe that Cherkessk is convenient for life, 74% of respondents are satisfied with the improvement of the city, 64% are satisfied with the work of public transport, more than half agree that the local government is doing a lot for the city.

Automobile highways

The following roads pass through Cherkessk:

• P217 "Caucasus" is a highway that has the status of an object of federal significance. The length of the route is 1118 km. It is part of two European routes: E119 and E50. The road passes through the territory of the following regions of Russia: Chechnya, Krasnodar Territory, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Stavropol Territory, Ingushetia, Dagestan. The final point of the route is the state border with Azerbaijan.
• P265 is a regional highway with a total length of 121 km. The route starts in Cherkessk and passes through Khabez, Kardoninskaya, Nizhny Arkhyz, Arkhyz.
• A165 is a federal highway with a length of 79 km. The route leads from Pyatigorsk to Cherkessk.

National picture

The population of the city of Cherkessk is people of 80 nationalities living in peace and harmony. Most of the inhabitants are Russians, Karachais, Circassians, Nogais and Abazas.

Ukrainians and Ossetians, Armenians and Tatars, Greeks and Azerbaijanis, Gypsies and Kabardians live in the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia. There are even representatives of small peoples - Laks, Kumyks, Avars and Dargins.

The population of Cherkessk professes Islam, Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism.

But mutual understanding and peace did not always reign in these lands.