Batalpashinsky otdel

Batalpashinsky otdel
Баталпашинскій отдѣлъ
Location in the Kuban Oblast
CountryRussian Empire
ViceroyaltyCaucasus
OblastKuban
Established1869
Abolished1922
CapitalBatalpashinskaya
(present-day Cherkessk)
Area
  Total
17,444.27 km2 (6,735.27 sq mi)
Population
 (1916)
  Total
298,208
  Density17/km2 (44/sq mi)
  Rural
100.00%

The Batalpashinsky otdel was a Cossack district (otdel) of the Kuban oblast of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It bordered the Stavropol Governorate to the north, the Labinsky and Maykopsky otdels to the west, the Sochi and Sukhumi okrugs to the south, and the Terek Oblast to the east. The area of the Batalpashinsky otdel included most of the contemporary Karachay-Cherkessia region of Russia. The administrative capital was the city of Batalpashinskaya (present-day Cherkessk).