Accordin tae the 2010 Census, the population o the krai is 2,786,281;[6] up frae 2,735,139 recordit in the 2002 Census[10] an further up frae 2,410,379 recordit in the 1989 Census.[11] The population o the krai is concentratit in the Kuban River an the Kuma River drainage basin, whilk uised tae be tradeetional Cossack land (see History o Cossacks). The Kuban Cossacks are nou generally conseidered tae be ethnic Roushies, even tho thay are still an important minority in thair awn richt in this aurie. Ither notable ethnic groups include the Armenies (maistly Christian Hamsheni) an Greeks wha haes been settlin here syne at least the 18t century.
The 2010 Census coontit thirty-three ethnic groups o mair nor 2,000 bodies each, makkin this federal subject ane o the maist multiethnic in Roushie. The indwallers identifee'd thairsels as belangin mair nor 140 different ethnic groups, as shawn in the follaein table:[6]
26,855 fowk wur registered frae admeenistrative databases, an coudnae declare a ethnicity. It is estimatit that the proportion o ethnicities in this group is the same as that o the declared group.[12]
Accordin tae a 2012 offeecial survey[15] 46.9% o the population o Stavropol Krai adheres tae the Roushie Orthodox Kirk, 7% are unaffiliatit generic Christians, 5% are Muslims, 1% adheres tae ither Orthodox Kirkes, an 1% o the population adheres tae Rodnovery. In addeetion, 19% o the population deems itsel tae be "spiritual but no releegious", 16% is atheist, an 7.1% follaes ither releegions or didna gie a answer tae the quaisten.[15]
Irrigatit agricultur is weel developit in the region. As o the beginnin o 2001, Stavropol Krai haed 3,361 km o irrigation canals, o whilk 959 km wur lined (i.e., haed concrete or stane waws, raither than merely soil waws, tae reduce the loss o watter).[17]
Fyodor Kulakov, a umwhile Soviet govrenor o Stavropol Krai who wis Brezhnev's apparent heir.
Stavropol Krai is the birthplace o twa General Secretars o the Communist Pairty o the Soviet Union: Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) an Mikhail Gorbachev (1985–1991).
↑Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №849 от 13 мая 2000 г. «О полномочном представителе Президента Российской Федерации в федеральном округе». Вступил в силу 13 мая 2000 г. Опубликован: "Собрание законодательства РФ", No. 20, ст. 2112, 15 мая 2000 г. (President of the Russian Federation. Decree #849 of May 13, 2000 On the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in a Federal District. Effective as of May 13, 2000.).
↑Госстандарт Российской Федерации. №ОК 024-95 27 декабря 1995 г. «Общероссийский классификатор экономических регионов. 2. Экономические районы», в ред. Изменения №5/2001 ОКЭР. (Gosstandart of the Russian Federation. #OK 024-95 December 27, 1995 Russian Classification of Economic Regions. 2. Economic Regions, as amended by the Amendment #5/2001 OKER. ).
↑"Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 Juin 2011. Retrieved 19 Januar 2019.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
↑Offeecial ootthrou the Roushie Federation accordin tae Airticle 68.1 o the Constitution o Roushie.
Государственная Дума Ставропольского края. №6-кз 12 октября 1994 г. «Устав (Основной Закон) Ставропольского края», в ред. Закона №117-кз от 21 декабря 2012 г. «О поправке к Уставу (Основному Закону) Ставропольского края». Опубликован: "Ставропольская правда", №198–199, 14 октября 1994 г. (State Duma of Stavropol Krai. #6-kz October 12, 1994 Charter (Basic Law) of Stavropol Krai, as amended by the Law #117-kz of December 21, 2012 On the Amendment of the Charter (Basic Law) of Stavropol Krai. ).