Ponezhukay (; ''Peneźyqwaj'') is a rural locality (an '' aul'') and the

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Teuchezhsky District Teuchezhsky District (; ) is an administrativeLaw #171 and a municipalLaw #284 district (raion), one of the list of administrative and municipal divisions of the Republic of Adygea, seven in the Republic of Adygea, Russia. It is located in the wes ...

of the

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, located on the Apchas River (

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's basin) near

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, north of

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. Population: 3,456 ( 2010 Census); 3,388 ( 2002 Census). There are no educational facilities above the level of

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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 the then-

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Hazret Sovmen.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''. The

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in Ponezhukay is located within the territory of the water protection zone (on the right slope of the

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), as well as in the vicinity of forests and

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lands, and is considered to pose high ecological risk since the time of its opening in 2001.
Эколого-ландшафтный мониторинг полигонов твёрдых бытовых отходов в Республике Адыгея
. S. A. Vladimirov, A. O. Karchevsky. ''Ecological and landscape monitoring of landfills in the Republic of Adygea''. Kuban State Agrarian University (pdf)

References

Rural localities in Teuchezhsky District {{Adygea-geo-stub Circassian communities