Ipatovo is a town and the administrative center of Ipatovsky District

Ipatovsky District

Ipatovsky 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 Ipatovo. District's population: 69,268 ; 64,725 . Population of Ipatovo accounts for 41.5% of the district's population....

 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

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, located on the Kalaus River about 120 kilometres (74.6 mi) northeast of Stavropol

Stavropol

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It was founded in 1860 as a settlement of Chemrek. It was later renamed Vinodelnoye because there had been many state wine cellar

Wine cellar

A wine cellar is a storage room for wine in bottles or barrels, or more rarely in carboys, amphorae or plastic containers. In an active wine cellar, important factors such as temperature and humidity are maintained by a climate control system. In contrast, passive wine cellars are not...

s. In 1935, the settlement was renamed Ipatovo in honor of Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...

hero P. M. Ipatov, who died here in 1918. Ipatovo was granted town status in 1979.