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Stavropol , 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.

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Stavropol', Russia Voroshilovsk A territory and a city founded in 1777 as a military post with a name meaning ‘Town of the Cross’ from the Greek stavros ‘cross’ and polis. In 1935–43 it was renamed after Kliment Voroshilov ^† to mark his promotion to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1935. It readopted its original name on the liberation of the Caucasus from the Germans in 1943. It was the former name for Tol′yatti

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