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Grateful city was founded in 1782. Initially, the village had a different name - Soldier. The first inhabitants of the village were 20 families of Cossacks and retired soldiers, settled by the government on the site of the guard post.

Tradition tells how the name Grateful appeared. Once the Governor-General was passing by the village. Residents decided to present him gifts, to which he replied approximately the following: “I don’t need your gifts, gentlemen serving, live on your health, but for the fact that you are grateful, let the village be called Grateful”.

Grateful - city, history

The village began to grow, and by 1806 there were already 39 houses, in which a total of 211 "revision souls" lived. And after the mass resettlement of peasants began from Voronezh, Tula, Kharkov, Kursk and other provinces of central Russia in the Stavropol Territory, the village began to grow at an even more accelerated pace.

By decree of December 9, 1867 p. Grateful was declared the center of the formed Novogrigoryevsky district of the Stavropol province, in which all the district institutions were located: the zemstvo chief and the judicial investigator, the district police department, the district treasury, the postal and telegraph office and others.

Grateful - a city, history

In 1900, Novogrigorievsky district was renamed into Blagodarnensky.

During the Great Patriotic War, thousands of grateful people fought at the front. At the end of July 1942, a partisan detachment was created in the city, headed by A.G. Odnokozov. From August 16, 1942, the village was under German occupation. October 15, 1942 at the village. Vladimirovka, Levokumsky district, the partisans inflicted a crushing blow on the enemy, forcing him to retreat. The territory of Blagodarny district was liberated from the invaders on January 13, 1943 by the

decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated September 9, 1971, the village Blagodarnoye was transformed into the city of Blagodarny.

In May 2000, a monument to the commander of the partisan detachment A.G. Odnokozov and fellow partisans who died in the Patriotic War was erected in the city center.
Eminent citizens of Grateful - Lieutenant General A.N. Sidelnikov, a famous scientist, academician, Hero of Socialist Labor B.V.Petrovsky, who headed in 1965-1980. Ministry of Health of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, teacher O. K. Gutseva.

Grateful is a district town in the Stavropol Territory, in the north of the Stavropol Upland in the Ciscaucasia. The left tributary of the Kuma River, the Wet Buffola River, flows through the city. Grateful is located 150 km east of Stavropol. The population of the city is 33.8 thousand people.

The climate is moderately continental and dry. Summers are hot with average July temperatures of + 22-24 degrees. Winter is mild with little snow. Average January temperatures are 4-5 degrees below zero. Average annual precipitation is 400-450 mm with a maximum in May-June. Grateful arose in 1782 on the site of a village that had already been there for 20 years. Initially, the village was called Soldierskoe. There were two names among the people - Soldier and Soldus, which were given to him by the nomadic peoples of Kalmykia and Turkmenia. At first, the village was inhabited by retired soldiers settled here by the government.

The history of the origin of the name Grateful is very interesting. Once the governor-general was driving through the village, and the residents presented him with many different gifts. The governor refused gifts and said that if the residents are so grateful to him, then let the village be called Grateful.
The rapid increase in the population of the village began after peasants from central Russia began to arrive here (Tula, Voronezh, Kursk and other provinces). Houses were built of stone or brick, stoves were heated with dung. Gradually, churches, shops, colleges, schools, taverns, and shops began to appear. At the end of the 19th century, two annual fairs were held.

In 1905-07, the villagers actively fought for equal rights, demanding to distribute landlord lands. The governor recognized Blagodarnensky district as the most revolutionary. In the 1930s, agricultural cartels, industrial enterprises, and houses of culture were created. Grateful suffered greatly during the years of the fascist occupation. After the liberation in January 1943, restoration began, and after the war, the village continued its industrial development. The village received the status of a city in 1971.

The city of Grateful today is the center of the agro-industrial complex and the food industry, as well as a junction of roads and railways.
Many agricultural crops are grown in Blagodarny district - cereals (wheat, oats, barley), buckwheat, corn, peas, sunflowers, potatoes, watermelons, and melons. Vegetable growing, fruit growing and viticulture are highly developed. Cattle breeding (cattle and goat breeding), sheep breeding, pig breeding, poultry breeding are distinguished among the areas of animal husbandry.