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Belorechensk

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Belorechensk 

a city, administrative center of the Belorechensk Raion, Krasnodar Krai, RSFSR. It is located at the place where the Belaia River flows out of the Greater Caucasus Mountains into the Kuban-Azov lowlands. It is a junction for railroad lines to Tuapse, Armavir, and Khadzhokh (via Maikop). It had a population of 42,000 in 1968. Industry includes railroad transport enterprises, parquet and furniture factories, a creamery, a dairy, and a factory for reinforced-concrete products. There is a cooperative technicum. In the vicinity of Belorechensk is one of the electrical power plants of the Belorechensk Cascade. The stanitsa (large cossack village) of Belorechensk arose in 1862 as a cossack fortress; it became a city in 1958.


Belorechensk 

an urban-type settlement in Omutninsk Raion, Kirov Oblast, RSFSR. Its railroad station (Ozernitsa-Kirov) is located on the Iar-Lesnaia branch of the Kirov-Glazov line. Population, 6,100 (1968). There is a logging and timber distribution establishment.



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