Mostovskoy is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

) and the administrative center of Mostovsky District

Mostovsky District

Mostovsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Its administrative center is the urban locality of Mostovskoy. District's population: Population of the administrative center accounts for 35.2% of the district's population....

 of Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai

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, Russia

Russia

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, located on the left bank of the Laba River. Population:

It was founded in 1894–1895 as the village of Mostovoye or Mostovskoye on the land of the former aul

Aul

An aul is a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains, especially in Dagestan.The word itself is of Turkic origine and means simply village in many Turkic languages....

s whose former inhabitants moved to Turkey

Turkey

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. It was granted urban-type settlement status and given its present name on October 10, 1961.

Footballer Roman Pavlyuchenko

Roman Pavlyuchenko

Roman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko is an footballer who currently plays as a centre forward for English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and for the Russian national team.-Spartak Moscow:...

was born in Mostovskoy in 1981.