Kuban

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Kuban
Кубань
The Kuban in Krasnodar

The Kuban in Krasnodar

Data
location Karachay-Cherkessia , Stavropol region , Krasnodar region , Adygeya ( Russia )
River system Kuban
source Greater Caucasus , western flank of Elbrus,
43 ° 19 ′ 31 ″  N , 42 ° 23 ′ 37 ″  E
Source height approx.  3200  m
muzzle Sea of ​​Azov at Temryuk Coordinates: 45 ° 20 ′ 21 "  N , 37 ° 24 ′ 11"  E 45 ° 20 ′ 21 "  N , 37 ° 24 ′ 11"  E
Mouth height 0  m
Height difference approx. 3200 m
Bottom slope approx. 3.7 ‰
length 870 km
Catchment area 57,900 km²
Outflow at the Krasnodar gauge MQ
 425 m³ / s
Left tributaries Teberda , Little Selentschuk , Big Selentschuk , Urup , Laba , Belaja , Pschisch , Afips
Reservoirs flowed through Krasnodar Reservoir
Big cities Cherkessk , Nevinnomyssk , Armavir , Krasnodar
Medium-sized cities Ust-Dscheguta , Novokubansk , Kropotkin , Ust-Labinsk , Temryuk
Small towns Karachayevsk
Navigable 314 km (from Ust-Labinsk )
The Kuban catchment area with tributaries

The Kuban catchment area with tributaries

Card with the Kuban

Card with the Kuban

The Kuban ( Russian Кубань , fem. ) Is a tributary of the Azov Sea in the northern Caucasus .

course

From the western slopes of the Elbrus , the Kuban flows a total of 870 kilometers on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus in a northerly direction, turns gradually west on the southern edge of the Stavropol ridge near Stavropol and finally reaches the Sea of ​​Azov at Temryuk . The Kuban has a catchment area of ​​57,900 km². Southeast of Slavyansk-na-Kubani branches off the north-flowing, 133 km long and navigable estuary Protoka , which also empties into the Sea of ​​Azov, as well as a number of other, smaller estuary branches that feed several limanes . The largest are the Kurchansky Liman east and Akhtanisovsky Liman west of Temryuk. South of Temryuk branches off from the main arm in a south-westerly direction, a small arm, Staraya Kuban (Old Kuban), further down also called Kubanka or Jakuschkino Girlo , which flows into the Kisiltaschski Liman with a connection to the Black Sea .

The Kuban is navigable. The most important tributary is the Laba .

In addition to the largest city on the banks of the Kuban, Krasnodar , it also flows through Cherkessk , the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia .

history

The entire region through which it flows is named after the Kuban River. The Kuban area is economically important today because of its agriculture, it was especially around the middle of the 20th century but also because of the oil deposits , for example around Maikop . During the Second World War it was therefore one of the primary goals of the German Wehrmacht in the east. After the German Caucasus offensive, which began in the summer of 1942 but was ultimately unsuccessful, was canceled on December 28, 1942, during the subsequent German retreat west of the lower Kuban, a bridgehead was fortified on the Taman Peninsula and held until October 9, 1943 and thus enabled the withdrawal of a large part of the troops of Army Group A from the Caucasus.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Article Kuban in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D066953~2a%3D~2b%3DKuban
  2. ^ List of Inland Waterways of the Russian Federation (confirmed by Order No. 1800 of the Government of the Russian Federation of December 19, 2002); on-line