Ponezhukay

Ponezhukay ( _ru. Понежукай; _ad. Пэнэжьыкъуай) is an aul (village) in the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located on the Apchas River (Kuban's drainage basin) near Krasnodar Reservoir, 80 km north of Maykop. It is the administrative center of Teuchezhsky District. Population: 3,388 (2002 Census).

There are no educational facilities above the level of secondary school in the aul.

A hospital serving the entire district was built here in 2006. The majority of the construction expenses were funded with the personal money of then President of Adygea Hazret Sovmen [http://www.governors.ru/?regmode=regions&region=0&razdel=tema&statja=10006 Governors.ru] . 25 апреля президент Республики Адыгея Хазрет Совмен посетил аул Понежукай —административный центр Теучежского района. "On April 25 Hazret Sovmen, President of the Republic of Adygea, visited the aul of Ponezhukay—the administrative center of Teuchezhsky District". ru icon] .

The landfill in Ponezhukay is located within the territory of the water protection zone (on the right slope of the Shunduk River), as well as in the vicinity of forests and agricultural lands, and is considered to pose high ecological risk since the time of its opening in 2001 _ru. С. А. Владимиров, А. О. Карчевский. [http://ej.kubagro.ru/2005/05/pdf/20.pdf Эколого-ландшафтный мониторинг полигонов твёрдых бытовых отходов в Республике Адыгея] . _ru. Кубанский Государственный Аграрный Университет. S. A. Vladimirov, A. O. Karchevsky. "Ecological and landscape monitoring of landfills in the Republic of Adygea". Kuban State Agrarian University (pdf) ru icon] .

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