Takhtamukay

Tachtamukai (Russian Тахтамукай; Adyghe Тэхъутэмыкъуай ) is a Aul in the Republic of Adygea (Russia) with 5214 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 100 km as the crow northwest of the Republic capital Maikop and just 15 km south of the center of Krasnodar, the center of the neighboring Krasnodar region, on the eastern shore of the small Oktjabrskoje dam of Sups, a left tributary of the few kilometers north -flowing Kuban.

Tachtamukai is the administrative seat of the Rajons Tachtamukaiski as well as the seat of the rural community Tachtamukaiskoje selskoje posselenije belong to the non- Tachtamukai nor the Aul Natuchai, settlements Otradny, Prikubanski and Sups and the hamlet ( Chutor ) Apostolidi.

History

The Aul was founded in 1860 and was first called to 1870 Enemski or Enem - Tachtamukai. In the 1930s, he was briefly ( 1936-1938 ) Chakurate, after Adyge revolutionary and Soviet official Saddle Chan - Girei Chakurate ( 1883-1935 ). On August 5, 1957 there was a further renamed Oktyabrsky, according to Russian Oktjabr for October, with reference to the October Revolution. In the 1990s, the Adygei name was restored.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

From Tachtamukai consists road link in the few kilometers to the west and north-west, much larger settlements in Rajon, Enem and Jablonowski. Through this pass the railway Krasnodar - Novorossiysk and their following highway A146, at the same time section of the European Route 115 to the east, there is connection to the city Adygeisk at the southwest end of the Krasnodar Reservoir, on the M4 highway.