Maysky, Kabardino-Balkar Republic

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Maysky (Russian: Ма́йский) is a town in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, located some 40 km north-east of Nalchik at 43°37′59″N, 44°3′52″E. Population: 27,037 (2002 Census).

A Russian military outpost Prishib was founded in 1819. It was reorganized as stanitsa Prishibskaya in 1829. In 1875, Kotlyarevskaya railway station was built three kilometers south of the stanitsa, and a settlement formed around it in 1888. In 1920 the settlement was renamed Prishibsky, in 1925—Maysky. In 1959 the settlement and the stanitsa merged into Maysky urban-type settlement. Town status since 1965.

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