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Zelenchukskaya

Russia / Karacaj-Cherkessija / Zelenchukskaya /
 village, district center

Zelenchukskaya (Russian: Зеленчу́кская; Karachay-Balkar: Зеленчук, Zelençuk) is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Zelenchuksky District of the Karachay–Cherkess Republic, Russia, located on the Bolshoy Zelenchuk River. Population: 19,449 (2010 Census).
The stanitsa was founded on May 1, 1859 and named after the river on which it stands.
The Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science is located to the south of the stanitsa. In 2015, it detected signals that might have come from a possible advanced extraterrestrial civilization, which are now being investigated by SETI.
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Coordinates:   43°50'27"N   41°34'40"E
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