Kanevskaya

Kanewskaja (Russian Каневская ) is a Cossack village in the southern Russian Krasnodar region with 44 386 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The Cossack village located in the north of the Kuban region, about 130 km north of the regional capital Krasnodar on the left bank of the river sealed Elba. As Staniza, so Cossack village, the place is despite the population corresponding to a medium-sized town formally known as rural settlement, and as such is the second largest in Russia, surpassed only by Ordschonikidsewskaja in Ingushetia, its large population, however, is due to the influx of refugees the Chechen wars in the 1990s. Beyond the Czech Elba is followed immediately by the Staniza Staroderewjankowskaja, forms a coherent settlement area with almost 60,000 residents with the Kanewskaja together.

The Staniza Kanewskaja is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Kanewskaja ( Kanewski ).

History

The Cossack village was founded in 1794 as one of the first 40 Cossack settlements in the Cuba area. Here, first settled in 1100 and named the former Zaporozhian Cossacks new Cossack village to the city Kaniv, Russian Kanev, on the Dnieper River.

During the Second World War the Cossack village Kanewskaja was occupied in August 1942 by the German Wehrmacht during their advance from the Don to the North Caucasus and recaptured on 5 February 1943 by the Red Army.

Demographics

Note: ( rounded from 1897 to 1926 ) from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

In Kanewskaja the 1902 built and consecrated in 1912 Russian Orthodox Intercession Intercession Cathedral ( Свято - Покровский собор / Swjato Pokrovsky Sobor - ) stands.

In the 1990s, an " Ice Palace" ( " Ledowy Dworez " ) was established, the first ice rink in southern Russia. There is a small zoo.

Economy and infrastructure

The Cossack village is the center of an important agricultural region with a predominantly cereal crops. In the Cossack village there are several enterprises for processing agricultural products (meat processing, sugar factory, bakery products ), and a plant for gas appliances.

Kanewskaja is located on the railway line between Rostov-on- Don, Krasnodar ( 1490 line kilometers from Moscow), which was opened on the section Starominskaja - Timaschewskaja on which also lies Kanewskaja, 1915 as branch line. In 1964, the route with the commissioning of the space closure Bataisk - Starominskaja part of the shorter direct connection and mainline from north to Krasnodar and on to the resorts on the Black Sea coast. The line was electrified in 1972. Through the town also leads the regional road R268 from Bataisk to Krasnodar.