Mikhaylovsk is a town and the administrative center of Shpakovsky District

Shpakovsky District

Shpakovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 26 in Stavropol Krai, Russia. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Mikhaylovsk. District's population: 108,717 ; 84,561 . Population of Mikhaylovsk accounts for 57.7% of the district's...

 of Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai

Stavropol Krai is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Stavropol. Population: -Geography:Stavropol Krai encompasses the central part of the Fore-Caucasus and most of the northern slopes of Caucasus Major...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located along the Tashla River, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Stavropol

Stavropol

-International relations:-Twin towns/sister cities:Stavropol is twinned with: Des Moines, United States Béziers, France Pazardzhik, Bulgaria-External links:* **...

. Population:

Railway station Pelagiada is located within the town; with directions to Elista

Elista

-Twin towns/sister cities:Elista is twinned with the following sister cities. Howell, New Jersey, United States Lhasa, Tibet, China. Ulan-Ude, Buryat Republic, Russia-See also:*Geden Sheddup Choikorling Monastery*Burkhan Bakshin Altan Sume-External links:...

, Stavropol, and railway station Kavkazskaya.

History

It was founded in 1784 as the village of Mikhaylovskoye and later became a Cossack stanitsa

Stanitsa

Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossack host . Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire.Much of the land was held in common by the...

. In 1870, it lost its military significance and was demoted back to village. In 1963, it was renamed Shpakovskoye . It was granted town status and given its present name in 1999.

Demographics

• Russians
  Russians
  The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
  
  : 50,626 persons (87.06%)
• Armenians
  Armenians
  Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....
  
  : 4,454 persons (7.66%)
• Romani: 747 persons (1.28%)
• Ukrainians
  Ukrainians
  Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
  
  : 737 persons (1.27%)

External links

• Official website of Mikhaylovsk