| Prokhladnensky District Прохладненский район(Russian) Прохладнэ къедзыгъуэ (Kabardian) Прохладна район (Karachay-Balkar) | |
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 Location of Prokhladnensky District in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic | |
| Coordinates: 43°45′N44°02′E / 43.750°N 44.033°E Coordinates: 43°45′N44°02′E / 43.750°N 44.033°E | |
 The Shakoy Spring near Yantarnoye in Prokhladnensky District | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Kabardino-Balkar Republic [1] |
| Administrative structure (as of April 2014) | |
| Administrative center | town of Prokhladny [1] |
| Inhabited localities: [1] | |
| Rural localities | 41 |
| Municipal structure (as of April 2014) | |
| Municipally incorporated as | Prokhladnensky Municipal District [2] |
| Municipal divisions: [2] | |
| Urban settlements | 0 |
| Rural settlements | 19 |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 1,342 km2 (518 sq mi)[ citation needed ] |
| Population (2010 Census) | 45,533 inhabitants [3] |
| • Urban | 0% |
| • Rural | 100% |
| Density | 33.93/km2 (87.9/sq mi) [4] |
| Time zone | MSK (UTC+03:00) [5] |
| Official website | |
| Prokhladnensky District on WikiCommons | |
| 2010 Census | 45,533 [3] |
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| 2002 Census | 46,425 [6] |
| 1989 Census | 39,951 [7] |
| 1979 Census | 38,174 [8] |
Prokhladnensky District (Russian : Прохла́дненский райо́н; Kabardian : Прохладнэ къедзыгъуэ; Karachay-Balkar : Прохладна район) is an administrative [1] and a municipal [2] district (raion), one of the ten in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the republic. The area of the district is 1,342 square kilometers (518 sq mi).[ citation needed ] Its administrative center is the town of Prokhladny (which is not administratively a part of the district). [1] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 45,533. [3]
Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although nearly three decades have passed since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia.
Kabardian, also known as Kabardino-Cherkess (къэбэрдей-черкесыбзэ) or East Circassian, is a Northwest Caucasian language closely related to the Adyghe language. It is spoken mainly in parts of the North Caucasus republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia and in Turkey, Jordan and Syria. It has 47 or 48 consonant phonemes, of which 22 or 23 are fricatives, depending upon whether one counts as phonemic, but it has only 3 phonemic vowels. It is one of very few languages to possess a clear phonemic distinction between ejective affricates and ejective fricatives.
The Karachay-Balkar language is a Turkic language spoken by the Karachays and Balkars in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay–Cherkessia, European Russia, as well as by an immigrant population in Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey. It is divided into two dialects: Karachay-Baksan-Chegem, which pronounces two phonemes as and, and Balkar, which pronounces the corresponding phonemes as and. The modern Karachay-Balkar written language is based on the Karachay-Baksan-Chegem dialect. The language is closely related to Kumyk.
