Tikhoretsk

City in Krasnodar kray (region), kray subordination, rayon (sector) centre, 136 km north-east of Krasnodar. Located in the Kuban-Priazov Lowlands. A large railway junction at the crossroads of the Rostov-on-Don - Baku and the Volgograd - Novorossiysk lines. A highway (Rostov-on-Don - Mineralny Vody). Population (1992 est.) 68.1 thousand, (1939 est.) 37 thousand, (1959 est.) 50 thousand, (1970 est.) 60 thousand, (1979 est.) 64 thousand.

At the end of the 19th century, the stanitsa (Cossack village) of Tikhoretskaya had more than 5 thousand people living there. The stanitsa was a junction station of the Vladikavkaz Railway with heavy cargo traffic. There was brisk trade in grain there. Since 1926, the city of Tikhoretsk. Before the war, it developed as the centre of a large agricultural area. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Tikhoretsk was occupied by Nazi troops (since August 5, 1942; liberated by January 30, 1943).

Present Tikhoretsk has an engineering and metal-working industry (a heavy track-machine works, a chemicals plant, a machine works, an engineering plant), a food industry (a meat-processing plant, a cheese-making plant, a bakery, an agrarian-industrial association, etc.), a light industry (a clothes factory, etc.); production of building materials. A museum of history and local lore.