Anapa

city Anapa Анапа flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia region Krasnodar Urban district Anapa mayor Sergei Pawlowitsch Sergejew (acting) Founded 1781 City since 1846 surface 40  km² population 58,990 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1475 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86133 Post Code 353417-353457 License Plate 23, 93, 123 OKATO 03 403 Website www.anapa-official.ru Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 53 '  N , 37 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 53 '0 "  N , 37 ° 19' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Krasnodar Territory

List of cities in Russia

Anapa ( Russian Ана́па ) is a city with 58,990 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and a spa and bathing resort on the Black Sea in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia .

Geography and climate

Anapa is located on the northwestern foothills of the Caucasus and on the coast of a Black Sea bay, about 160 km west of the regional capital Krasnodar . The closest cities are the port city of Novorossiysk and the middle town of Temryuk , both about 50 km from Anapa. Due to its location on the Black Sea and the surrounding mountains of the Caucasus, Anapa has a mild, very warm climate of the Mediterranean type, with an average air temperature of +2 ° C for January and +23 ° C for July and an annual rainfall of around 550 mm. In winter, however, periods of frost with lows of −20 ° C and below are possible.

history

Remnants of Gorgippa

Anapa was built on the site of a 400 BC Existed ancient city called Gorgippa , the capital of the Cimmerians . From the 15th to the 18th century the former city was owned by the Turks and served as a fortress from 1781. The current place name has a Circassian origin and existed at the latest since the 18th century.

In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the fortress was taken several times by the troops of the Russian Empire during the Turkish Wars. Finally, the fortress and the surrounding area finally fell to Russia in accordance with the Treaty of Adrianople in 1829 .

City gate of Anapa

1836 founded Cossacks east of the fortress a Staniza that initially the name Nikolayevskaya after the then Tsar I. Nicholas was wearing. With a decree of December 15, 1846, the fortress was given city rights under the name Anapa. Stanitsa was closed in 1854, but re-established in 1862 under the name Anapskaya . Today it belongs to the city district.

Until the end of the 19th century, the people of Anapa mainly engaged in fishing and trading. At the same time, tourism began to develop, due to Anapa's extremely favorable climate. In 1866 Anapa was officially promoted to a spa town . At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, several sanatoriums were built here for those seeking relaxation from other regions of Russia. The expansion of the spa system continued after the October Revolution and the formation of the Soviet Union .

In World War II Anapa was largely devastated and was from 1942 to 1943 by the German Wehrmacht occupied. In the post-war period, the city was rebuilt and served as one of the most important Black Sea health resorts in the country during the Soviet era, with a focus on various children's facilities such as summer camps for Lenin pioneers . Even today, Anapa is a popular seaside resort in the Russian Caucasus alongside Sochi .

On May 5, 2011 the city was given the honorary title "City of Military Glory" by the then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev by ukase .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	6,944
1939	17.306
1959	19,602
1970	29,900
1979	40.119
1989	54,976
2002	53,493
2010	58,990

Note: census data

economy

Black Sea beach in Anapa

The economic focus in Anapa is tourism. The city has around 4 million holidaymakers per season. It is considered a typical family seaside resort in Russia with a mild, almost Mediterranean climate and good transport links throughout the country. The place has a train station and its own airport , which Aeroflot flies to every day, even in winter .

Currently, Anapa has major tourist development plans. Anapa Nova is to be raised on the sand spit (5 by 1.6 km) located 25 km northwest of the city . The planning looks u. a. several thousand hotel and apartment beds, a luxury hotel in a high-rise building, plus shopping center, villa district, golf course, boat marina and three large pier facilities. A German planning collective is also involved in the concept.

In October 2011, Anapa was named the “best balneological health resort in the world” by the “International Center for Climate and Spa Treatments” (FEMTEK) .

The area around Anapa is famous for its viticulture . Industry is barely represented in the city apart from small food and light companies. There is a meat combine, a milk factory and a beer brewery called "Bogerhaus". In terms of urban planning, Anapa has been laid out in a checkerboard pattern with a geometric street network since the late 19th century.

The Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline has been running from Tanapa through the Black Sea to European Turkey since 2020 .

Culture and sights

Russian Orthodox Church in honor of St. Onophrios the Great

Dolphin in the Anaper Dolphinarium

There is a theater on Krimskaya Street, which opened in the summer of 2007 after the reconstruction and complete renovation of the "House of Culture". Every autumn the cinema festival "Kinoshock" takes place, in which numerous television and theater actors from Russia and other CIS countries take part.

Anapa also has 29 publicly accessible libraries and an archaeological open-air museum called "Gorgippia". Entrance to the museum costs 150 rubles for adults , which is the equivalent of about three euros.

The Russian Orthodox Church in Anapa is dedicated to St. Onophrios the Great . It was built between 1830 and 1837 and is one of the oldest churches in the Kuban area .

Another attraction is the Anaper dolphinarium , which was opened in the year 1992nd

Every year at the end of September there is a kitesurfing festival in Anapa .

communication

In Anapa there is comprehensive internet and mobile phone reception. 3G networks (as of 2019?) Can be used practically anywhere in the city. The city administration is working on a massive expansion of open WiFi hotspots in the touristically important areas.

sons and daughters of the town

• Michail Schatelen (1866–1957), electrical engineer and university professor
• Igor Rostorozki (born 1962), wrestler
• Iwan Lewenez (* 1980), football player
• Xenia Stolz (* 1989), German athlete

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Анапа признана лучшим бальнеологическим курортом мира. In: Interfax . October 26, 2011, accessed January 27, 2013 (Russian). 
3. ↑ Анапский археологический музей. museum.ru, accessed December 2, 2014 (Russian). 

Web links

Commons : Anapa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Unofficial Portal (Russian)