Kuban Oblast

The Kuban Oblast ( Кубанская область ) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus ciskaukasischen area of the General Government. It bordered on the north by the Don area, split off the east by the province of Stavropol and the Terek oblast, to the south by the Government Kutais and on the southwest by the 1896 Black Sea Governorate and the Black Sea. It was founded in 1860 and existed until the reorganization of the Caucasus territories after the Civil War. Capital was Yekaterinodar, today's Krasnodar.

By today's terms, it included about the republics of Adygea and Karachay -Cherkessia and the Krasnodar region. She was named after the river Kuban and geographically corresponded approximately to the Kuban.

It consisted of 94,376 km ² (of which 1948.5 km ² water surface ) and had 1,918,881 inhabitants in 1897 (about 20/km ²).

The area was divided into the following departments ( Otdel ):

• Yekaterinodar
• Batalpaschinsk (now Tscherkessk )
• Jeisk
• Caucasus ( capital Tikhoretsk )
• Laba ( capital Armavir )
• Maikop
• Temryuk

According to the 1897 census, the population consisted of 816 734 Russians (including Cossacks Cuba ), 908 818 Ukrainians, also from 38 488 Circassians, 12,481 Abkhazians, 26 877 Karachay, Kabardians 14,340, 20,137 Greeks, 13,926 Armenians, and 20,778 Germans. The majority of the population was after this census, Russian Orthodox, the Cossacks were under its own eparchy, there were also 54 790 non-Orthodox Christians, Raskolniki 23 195, 103 313 Mohammedans, 4796 Israelites and Gentiles 327.