Belorechensk, Krasnodar Krai

It was established as a Cossack settlement in 1862. According to the 1926 census, it had a population of 14,947, 66.4% Russian and 24.5% Ukrainian. Town status was granted to it in 1958. During the Soviet period, a corrective labor camp was located here. Belorechensk was briefly occupied by Germany in the Second World War. ==Administrative and municipal status==

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Belorechensk serves as the administrative center of Belorechensky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the territory of Yuzhny Rural Okrug (which comprises three rural localities), incorporated separately as the Town of Belorechensk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. Yuzhny Rural Okrug is incorporated within Belorechensky Municipal District as Yuzhnenskoye Rural Settlement. ==References==