Kuban (Russian and Ukrainian: Кубань; Adyghe: Пшызэ) is a historical and geographical region in the North Caucasus region of southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, the Volga Delta and separated from the Crimean Peninsula to the west by the Kerch Strait.

The Kuban oblast [a] was a province of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It roughly corresponded to most of the Kuban and Circassia regions. It was created in 1860 out of Kuban Cossack territories that had once been part of …

The Kuban People's Republic or Kuban National Republic (Russian: Кубанская Народная Республика, romanized: Kubanskaya Narodnaya Respublika; Ukrainian: Кубанська Народна Республiка, romanized: Kubanska Narodna Respublika, abbreviated as KPR or KNR, Cyrillic: КНР) was an anti-Bolshevik state ...

Kuban is the southernmost Ukrainian ethnographic territory, separated from the rest of Ukraine by the Sea of Azov and the Russian Don region. It encompasses the western part of the steppes of Subcaucasia and the main massif of the Caucasus Mountains, their …

Sep 7, 2023 · Kuban River in Russia originates in the Greater Caucasus Mountains with its glacier-fed source near Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in the Caucasus and also the highest mountain in Europe. It originates in two outflows, UlluKam and Uchkulan, flowing northward through narrow gorges and rapids.

The Kuban lands are ancient lands. The favourable natural conditions and gentle climate made it possible for the first settlements to appear here very early. The discovery of sites of ancient peoples within the territory of the Krai allows us to trace almost all archaelogical periods.

A historical geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga Delta and the Caucasus.

Kuban (ko͞obănˈ, –bänˈ, Rus. ko͞obäˈnyə), river, c.570 mi (920 km) long, rising in the Greater Caucasus on the western slopes of Mt. Elbrus, S European Russia, and flowing north in a wide arc past Karachayevsk, Cherkessk, and Armavir, then W past Krasnodar, entering the Sea of Azov through two arms.

The thirties and forties of the 19th century were marked in the history of Kuban by formation of the Caucasus combat Cossacks’ troops in 1832, changing struggle tactics on the cordon lines, building coast line to unite all the fortifications on the north-east seaboard of the Black Sea, and also the Labinsk line to reduce the protected borders ...

Kuban (Russian and Ukrainian: Кубань; Adyghe: Пшызэ) is a historical and geographical region in the North Caucasus region of southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, the Volga Delta and separated from the Crimean Peninsula to the west by the Kerch Strait.