Georgievsk

a city, the center of Georgievsk Raion, Stavropol’ Krai, RSFSR, on the Podkumok River (a tributary of the Kuma). It has a railroad station on the Mineral’nye Vody-Prokhladnaia line; there is a 94-km branch line from Georgievsk to Budennovsk. In 1970 its population was 44,000. Georgievsk has a major steel reinforcement plant, a brickyard, and auto-repair, silkworm-breeding, biochemical, and tanning plants. It has a large food industry (an oil mill, a cannery, a creamery, a flour mill, a winery, a brewery, and a meat- and fowl-processing combine). There is an agricultural mechanization technicum. Georgievsk originated as a fortress in 1777 and became a city in 1786.