Zelenchukskaya
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, 1 km from center (Зеленчукская)
World / Russia / Karachay-Cherkess
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.
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.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelenchukskaya
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 43°50'55"N 41°35'8"E
- Storozhevaya 15 km
- Urup 36 km
- Pregradnaya 37 km
- Uchkulan 57 km
- Kurdzhinovo 57 km
- Solyonoye 63 km
- Zemo Azhara 82 km
- Sakeni 86 km
- Zemo Eshera 102 km
- Psirtskha 103 km
- Советская ул., 165 0.8 km
- АЗС Лукойл 2.2 km
- Cemetery 3.7 km
- Cemetery 8 km
- Karachay–Cherkess Republic 8.4 km
- Abazinsky District 40 km