Leningradskaya (rural locality)

Leningradskaya (Russian Ленинградская ) is a Cossack village in the southern Russian Krasnodar region with 36,940 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The Cossack village located in the north of the Kuban region, about 150 km north of the regional capital of Krasnodar near the left bank of the Sossyka, a tributary of the Jeja. Leningradskaya is the second largest Staniza ( Cossack village ) the region after Kanewskaja and making it the third largest in Russia.

The Staniza Leningradskaya is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Leningradskaya ( Leningradski ).

History

The history of the Cossack village began in 1794, when the first 40 Cossack settlements were founded in Cuba area. The colonizing here Zaporozhye Cossacks named the place after the city of Uman in the Ukraine today cures as Umanskoje or Umanski. In 1842, he was now as Staniza Umanskaja, the administrative center of the oblast okrugs Jeisk Kuban and maintained this administrative function until 1869.

In 1911, the private Jeisker railway from the station Sossyka was performed ( in the Cossack village Pawlowskaja ) the main line of the North Caucasus Railway Rostov - Vladikavkaz in the city Jeisk on the coast of the Azov Sea by Umanskaja.

In the Soviet period Umanskaja belonged during the collectivization of agriculture and the famine 1932/33 to the 13 Stanizen the Cuba area who were registered for alleged retention of cereal on a so-called "Black Schandtafel ". As a result, much of the surviving inhabitants of the Cossack village (1200 families ) were deported to the northern parts of the country or to Kazakhstan. In their place, families were settled by members of the Red Army from the White Russian and Leningrad military districts, and the Cossack village on 20 June 1934 in Leningradskaya ( " Leningrad Staniza " ) renamed. In contrast to the approximately Staniza Poltavskaya, in 1933 the name Krasnoarmeiskaja ( " Red Army Staniza " ) received, but whose historical name was restored in the 1990s, Leningradskaya carries the " Soviet" name to this day.

During World War II Leningradskaya was occupied by the summer of 1942 to February 1943 by the German Wehrmacht.

Demographics

Note: except for 1913 Census data

Economy and infrastructure

The Cossack village is the center of an important agricultural region with a predominantly Growing of cereals ( wheat, corn, barley) and industrial crops (sunflower, soybean, sugar beet ), but also livestock (cattle, pigs, poultry). There are several enterprises for processing agricultural products (sugar factory, dairy ), next to a factory for ceramic products.

In Leningradskaya cross two roads that connect the east extending highway M4 Moscow - Rostov - Novorossiysk with the northwest trending regional road R268 Bataisk - Krasnodar: Kisljakowskaja-Staroderewjankowskaja/Kanewskaja and Pawlowskaja - Starominskaja.

The by Leningradskaya ( station name Umanskaja ) leading railway from Pawlowskaja ( station Sossyka - Rostovskaya ) to Jeisk is on the section to Starominskaja since the 1990s out of service.