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	Stavropol Territory - Kommersant Moscow
		Stavropol Territory is located in the central Caucasian foothills and on the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus (Mt. Dombai-Ulgen, elevation 4046 m; Mt. Elbrus, elevation 5642 m) and covers an area of 66 500 km2.
		Work is underway on grouping the architectural monuments of Stavropol's cities according to chronological style and period (from the first buildings to architectural complexes or blocks of the late period); and churches, synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship are being restored or rebuilt.
		The Chairman of the Government of Stavropol Territory must submit proposals to the Governor for administering the region, forming executive government bodies, and selecting candidates for the posts of first deputy chairmen of the Government and heads of ministries and other structural subdivisions of the Government of Stavropol Territory.
	www.kommersant.com /p-87/r_431/Stavropol_Territory (3739 words)

	Stavropol Territory (Russia)
		In the center of the cross is found a colored or monochrome (all in gold) depiction of the coat of arms of Stavropol Territory, the edges of which shall not extend beyond the limits of the white field of the crossing.
		The ratio of the breadth of the flag to the height of the coat of arms is 16:6.
		The ratio of the length of the flag to the width of the coat of arms is 25:5.
	flagspot.net /flags/ru-26.html (736 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Stavropol was founded in 1777 following the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774 as a military encampment and designated as a city in 1785.
		Terek Cossacks settled the area in and around the cities of Stavropol and Georgievsk with a mission to defend borders of the Empire.
		The name Stavropol is a Russian rendition of a fictitious Greek name, Stauropolis (historically the name of an unrelated archbishopric in Caria, a Roman province in present Anatolia), meaning "The city of the Cross".
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Stavropol (479 words)

	About Stavropol and the South of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stavropol is the capital of the Stavropol region, a rich agricultural area and one of the most important producers of food crops in Russia.
		A bit closer to the south of Stavropol, are resort cities like Kislovodsk where you'll find healing mineral waters and spas devoted to improving one's health.
		300 kilometers to the northwest of Stavropol is the ancient unearthed Greek city of Tanais.
	www.stavropol.net /english-ok/page4_en.shtml (349 words)

	Iowa Sister States
		Stavropol Krai became a Sister State to Iowa because of the many similarities the states share: geographic size, economies based on agriculture or ag-related industries and businesses, and nearly equal populations with a few large cities and many small towns.
		Stavropol is both the name of the territory and the name of its capitol city.
		Urban population is considered to be 53.7% Stavropol Krai's population comprises a rich mixture of ethnicities, languages, religions and cultural traditions.
	www.iowasisterstates.org /stavropol (521 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Stavropol
		The central part of the territory occupies the Stavropol Plateau, a hilly region (rising to...
		Born in the agricultural region of Stavropol, Gorbachev studied law at Moscow State Univ., where in 1953 he married a philosophy student, Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko (1932?-99).
		129,500), Stavropol Territory, SE European Russia, on the Podkumok River in the N Caucasus.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Stavropol (719 words)

	Union of Councils for Soviet Jews: Window on Eurasia: Stavropol Moves from Melting Pot to Powder Keg
		Prior to the end of the Soviet Union, Stavropol kray was famed mostly for its large grain harvests and for the fact that is was Mikhail Gorbachev’s home.
		Bordering on six different non-Russian republics and territories, Stavropol became a magnet for both Russians and non-Russians seeking to escape from the violence in the northern Caucasus.
		The Stavropol authorities, the Moscow analyst suggests, believed that it was far more effective to limit immigration and then to seek to integrate new arrivals on a non-ethnic basis than to retreat into the kind of radical and often extravagant Russian ethno-nationalism of the kind adopted by officials in Krasnodar kray.
	www.fsumonitor.com /stories/021606Russia.shtml (691 words)

	Stavropol Region
		It is located north of the Caucasus mountains and stretchs from the Krasnodar region on the west almost to the Caspian Sea.
		Stavropol is the home region of former President Mikhail Gorbachev.
		Stavropol region has a long standing sister state relationship with Iowa and many Iowa cities have sister city relationships with Stavropol region cities.
	www.russiawines.com /page_eng/stavropol.htm (65 words)

	North Caucasus State Technical University - NCSTU : official web server
		In 1971 by the order of the USSR Council of Ministers Stavropol Polytechnic Institute was established on the basis of Stavropol branch of Krasnodar Polytechnic Institute and Nevinnomyssk and Cherkessk ECCs became its structural parts.
		As Stavropol State Technical University was one of the leading higher educational establishments in the region and the only one of its type in the North Caucasus, it was renamed as North Caucasus State Technical University, by the order N1180 of the Ministry for higher and vocational education of the Russian Federation of 24.04.99.
		North Caucasus State Technical University is the only university in the Stavropol region which has a Federal centre of the global computer network "RUNNet", which opens up quite new perspectives in education, including distance learning and allows to improve radically the efficiency and quality of training specialities.
	www.ncstu.info (1032 words)

	Caucasian Knot : News
		The protests of Pyatigorsk (Stavropol region) residents on the issue of city construction have resulted in the creation of a city duma commission on monitoring the construction development of the resort city, which is going to exercise its powers until the Pyatigorsk general plan has been approved.
		A displace woman living in Stavropol Region has not been given the president's reply, but lawyers of the Pyatigorsk non-governmental organization Faith, Hope and Love, which is a member of the Solidarity association, will help her.
		On April 7, the Promishlenny District Court of Stavropol was to consider a complaint by the chairman of the interregional youth public charitable organization Caucasian Youth Human Rights League, Maksim Abrakhimov, against an illegal decision by the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Stavropol Territory.
	eng.kavkaz.memo.ru /news/engnews/date?srch_section1=engnews&srch_section2=engstavropol (1791 words)

	Stavropol Krai - Definition, explanation
		Stavropol Krai (Ставропо́льский край;) is a regional subdivision of Russia.
		Its administrative center is the city of Stavropol.
		Stavropol Krai is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/st/stavropol_krai.php (82 words)

	Stavropol, Russia, Pictures
		Stavropol', city in southern European Russia, capital of Stavropol' Territory, in an area known as Caucasia.
		Since the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991, Stavropol' has attracted many refugees from neighboring regions as a result of political and economic chaos and armed conflict near Russia's borders.
		Stavropol' has air, rail (the Kavkazskaya-Divnoe-Elista rail line), and highway connections to other major cities.
	www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Russia/Stavropol_city.html (233 words)

	Stavropol Territory (Russia)
		In the center of the cross is found a colored or monochrome (all in gold) depiction of the coat of arms of Stavropol Territory, the edges of which shall not extend beyond the limits of the white field of the crossing.
		The ratio of the breadth of the flag to the height of the coat of arms is 16:6.
		The ratio of the length of the flag to the width of the coat of arms is 25:5.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/ru-sta.html (708 words)

	Security&Terrorism: Eye On Eurasia: Stavropol Tensions Rise - The Post Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Indeed, as Sergei Markedonov, a longtime observer of ethnic developments in the Caucasus writes this week, Stavropol appears to be moving from being "a melting pot" in which ethnic groups can find common ground into the scene for violent clashes among them.
		Prior to the end of the Soviet Union, the Stavropol region was famed mostly for its large grain harvests and for the fact that is was Mikhail Gorbachev's home.
		The Stavropol authorities, the Moscow analyst suggests, believed that it was far more effective to limit immigration and then to seek to integrate new arrivals on a non-ethnic basis than to retreat into the kind of radical and often extravagant Russian ethno-nationalism of the kind adopted by officials in Krasnodar region.
	www.postchronicle.com /news/security/printer_2127517.shtml (684 words)

	Stavropol Police Smash Arms Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		According to the Stavropol prosecutor's office, the arms ring was smashed during a joint undercover operation with RUOP - the Regional Directorate for the Fight Against Organised Crime.
		At the end of last year, Stavropol police were tipped off that large consignments of Nagan, Makarov, Stechkin and TT handguns were being smuggled into the North Caucasus region.
		Make-up artists from the Stavropol Drama Theatre were invited to disguise the undercover officers so that they would be unrecognisable to their colleagues in the police force.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=crs&s=f&o=161733&apc_state=henicrs2001 (651 words)

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		Russia: 41 cases of CCHF and one fatality recorded in the Stavropol region -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forty-one cases of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), including one fatality, have been recorded in 12 districts of the Stavropol region, according to the Territorial Management of Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service on Surveillance of Consumer Rights and Human Well-being) in Stavropol.
		The Stavropol region is located in southern European Russia (the Central Caucasus).
		Stavropol is a part of Southern Federal District of Russia, which includes the Rostov, Krasnodar, Stavropol, Volgograd, and Astrakhan regions, and the Republics of Chechnya, Kalmykia, Dagestan, Adygeya, Severhaya Osetiya, Kabardino-Balkariya, Ingushetiya, and Karachayevo-Cherkesiya.
	www.promedmail.org /pls/promed/f?p=2400:1001:5270933121098547838::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1010,34242 (454 words)

	Forum 18 Search/Archive
		This is said to be due to the latter's insistence on the return of Stavropol city's historical mosque, which currently houses a museum.
		Apparent confirmation of the authorities' displeasure is their failure to invite the Spiritual Directorate to a major regional conference, addressed by Governor Aleksandr Chernogorov and other key officials, which was also attended by representatives of the muftiates of both Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.
		Stavropol regional religious affairs official Vasili Shnyukov declined to respond to Forum 18's questions by telephone.
	www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=448 (533 words)

	Stavropol - Armeniapedia.org
		Some 15 tombstones were vandalised in the night to December 6 at an Armenian graveyard in the Stavropol region, Interfax news agency reported.
		As Eduard Kondian, Director of Executive Board of Directors of Stavropol Territorial Department of the Union of Russian Armenians, informed, the management of the Pyatigorsk Armenian national-cultural autonomy is to pass the respective statements to the municipal Prosecutor's Office, Department of Internal Affairs and administration.
		In the evening I Accuse documentary also was shown by Stavropol city TV, reports the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Stavropol (972 words)

	Stavropol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Stavropol itself is situated about 200 miles from the Black Sea and adjacent to the city are numerous high mountain ranges.
		Stavropol is the administrative centre of Stavropol krai (region), and has a population of 328,000.
		Stavropols transit system is very good and not hard to use once you get the hang of it.
	www.singletravel.com /stavropol (1824 words)

	Russia: Heavy Fighting Reported In Russia's Southern Stavropol Krai - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The clashes erupted in Stavropol Krai's eastern Neftekum Raion, an area that had not been touched recently by unrest despite its proximity to Chechnya and Daghestan.
		Vasily Belchenko, an official with Stavropol Krai's Anti-Terrorism Commission, told the Interfax news agency the militants were ethnic Nogais with alleged ties to the Chechen separatist leadership.
		The Nogais are a Sunni Muslim Turkic people scattered across Turkey, Daghestan, Chechnya, and Stavropol Krai's Neftekum Raion.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2006/02/e14b9f7c-e094-4b9c-9403-ac68cb502bd6.html (714 words)

	Official Stavropol - Stavropol City Administration
		If you have never heard of Stavropol, then this is a splendid opportunity to learn something new and find a friend.
		Because in 225 years Stavropol – once a little provincial town – has turned into a large industrial, scientific, and cultural centre, which is rapidly becoming one of the most important political and business centres of the North Caucasus.
		No matter what you are looking for, you will find here any information about our city, the work of the administration, as well as about the leaders.
	www.stavropol.stavkray.ru /_eng/adm (157 words)

	FJC \| News \| Improved Medical and Social Care for Stavropol Jews
		STAVROPOL, Russia – The Jewish community of Stavropol signed a contract with the Regional Diagnostic Health Center.
		The initiative that resulted in the signing of this contract is part of the social activity carried out by the Jewish community of Stavropol.
		The Jewish community of Stavropol is a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia.
	www.fjc.ru /news/newsArticle.asp?AID=364436 (285 words)

	Accomodation in Russia , STAVROPOL. Hotels Reservation , Peace Travel Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		V.I.P. Stavropol was founded in 1777 as a fortress and has become already a city in 1785.
		Stavropol is the administrative, economic and cultural centre of the Stavropolsky kray (region) today.
		There are 2 theatres, 6 museums, the Philharmonic Hall and the Circus in Stavropol.
	www.go-russia.com /hotelsprocessor.php?city=STAVROPOL (163 words)

	A Troubled Realm
		Although, recorded personal monetary income is low in Stavropol Kray (it is less than Russia’s average almost by half), living costs are low as well.
		In the eyes of its southern neighbors, not just Chechnya, Stavropol is a safe haven, which is what explains that the net migration into Stavropol countryside is about 5,000 people a year, making Stavropol Kray one of the migrations magnets of Russia.
		Finally, unlike the other case study regions, all the most important modes of Russian farming are well represented in Stavropol: collective farms (both economically sound and feeble), subsidiary farms, and independent family farms.
	www.runet.edu /~agrorus/cstudies.htm (1095 words)

	Pravda.RU Lives Of Yesterday's Stavropol Explosion Victims Are Out Of Danger
		At least, the doctor on duty at the health ministry of the Stavropol territory, Russia's North-Caucasian region that borders on Chechnya, says no emergencies occurred during the night.
		The blast shook the centre of Stavropol yesterday evening and was caused by a homemade explosive device stuffed into a plastic container, which was planted in a trash can by a bus stop.
		At its regular meeting on Wednesday the Stavropol Territorial Court is beginning to read the indictment of five residents of Karachai-Circassia.
	newsfromrussia.com /accidents/2001/07/18/10386.html (1836 words)

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