North Caucasus Krai

North Caucasus Krai (

Voroshilovsk

(today Stavropol).

As of 1932, the population of the krai was estimated at 10,290,000 in an area of 351,800 km². 45.9% of the overall population was Russian, and 37.2% of the overall population was Ukrainian.

Widespread death by starvation occurred in the krai during the

Soviet famine of 1932–33

.

As of the

1937 All-Union Census, the krai had a population of 1,635,277 in a smaller area.^[1]

After undergoing numerous administrative changes, including the loss of the majority of its territory to the new

Ordzhonikidze Krai (Орджоникидзевский край), after Sergo Ordzhonikidze, on 13 March 1937, and Stavropol Krai

on 12 January 1943.

Since 19 January 2010, the region has been divided between the North Caucasian Federal District and the Southern Federal District.

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[1] USSR Population Distribution (1937)

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