Novoalexandrovsk is a town and the administrative center of Novoalexandrovsky District

Novoalexandrovsky District

Novoalexandrovsky 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 Novoalexandrovsk. District's population: 67,065 ; 58,630 . Population of Novoalexandrovsk accounts for 40.9% of...

 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 on the bank of the Rasshevatka River, 110 kilometres (68.4 mi) southwest of Stavropol

Stavropol

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It was founded in 1804 by settlers from Central Russia as the village of Novo-Alexandrovskoye . In 1832, it was transformed into the 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...

of Novoalexandrovskaya . It was granted town status and renamed Novoalexandrovsk in 1971.