Stavropol (stäˈvrəpəl) [key], city (1989 pop. 318,000), capital
of Stavropol Territory, S European Russia, on the Stavropol
Plateau. It has machine-tool, wool, leather, grain milling, and
food-processing industries. There are natural-gas fields in the
area. Founded in 1777 as a Russian fortress, it was an important
base for the subsequent Russian conquest of the Caucasus. The
was called Voroshilovsk between 1935 and 1943. The Columbia
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