Temryuk

This article covers the city in Russia. For further meanings, see Temryuk (disambiguation) .

city Temryuk Темрюк flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia region Krasnodar Rajon Temryuk Founded 1237 City since 1860 surface 47  km² population 38,046 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 809 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 10  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86148 Post Code 35350x License Plate 23, 93, 123 OKATO 03 251 501 Website www.temryuk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 45 ° 16 '  N , 37 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 16 '0 "  N , 37 ° 23' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Krasnodar Territory

List of cities in Russia

Temryuk ( Russian Темрюк ) is a city in the Krasnodar region ( Russia ) with 38,046 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located near the north coast of the Taman Peninsula about 130 km west of the regional capital Krasnodar on the right bank of the southwest arm of the Kuban not far from its confluence with the Sea of ​​Azov .

Temryuk is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The city is the end of a railway line that branches off the Krymskaya - Kawkas line leading to the western tip of the Taman peninsula . Temryuk has a sea and fishing port five kilometers north of the city.

history

After the Mongols had conquered the Kuban region , they founded their first city in 1237 on the site of today's Temryuk.

As a result, control over the strategically favorable location at the mouth of the Kuban was sought after. In the 14th century, the Genoese trading colony Copa was located here .

In 1483, the colony was conquered by the Crimean Khanate and was known as (in Russian form) Tumnev under Crimean Tatar rule towards the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century .

Church in Temryuk

In the 16th century, the Kabardian prince Temryuk Aidarovich conquered the Taman Peninsula with Russian support and built the fortress Novy Temryuk (New Temryuk) . In 1570 the Tatars recaptured the area and renamed the fortress and town Adis .

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Taman Peninsula and Temryuk Fortress belonged to the Ottoman Empire . As a result of the Russo-Ottoman War from 1768 to 1774 , the area became part of the Russian Empire . In 1778 the first Russian fortification was built - the Starotemrjukskoje ukreplenije (Old Temryuk Fortification) . Cossacks were settled in 1793 , the settlement of which changed its status several times until it became Staniza in 1843 and in 1860 received city rights under its current name. From 1860 to 1910 Temryuk was the administrative center of a district of Kuban Oblast .

During the Second World War Temryuk was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on August 24, 1942 and recaptured on September 27, 1943 by troops of the North Caucasus Front of the Red Army with the support of the Black Sea Fleet as part of the Novorossiysk-Taman operation .

Population development

Soviet city coat of arms (1976)

year	Residents
1897	14,734
1926	15,900
1939	23,226
1959	22,182
1970	23,172
1979	31,895
1989	33.163
2002	36,118
2010	38,046

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

Voennaya gorka open-air museum

Temryuk has a historical and archaeological museum and an open-air museum for military technology ( Wojennaja gorka ).

In the area of ​​the Rajon, on the Taman Peninsula, there are a number of archaeological sites in the place of ancient Greek colonies, such as Phanagoria and Hermonassa, and later Genoese and Russian settlements built in their place, e . B. Tmutorokan .

Among the natural attractions the marsh and part lagoon (here Limane called) of Cuba deltas and a number of mud volcanoes on the city and its surroundings.

economy

Temryuk is the center of fishing and fish processing and, as the center of an agricultural area, also the food industry. In addition, equipment manufacturing and building materials businesses.

The coast of the Sea of ​​Azov, not far from the city, is a holiday area, and Stanitsa Golubitskaya is also a balneological spa based on bromine and iodine-containing healing mud.

sons and daughters of the town

• Pyotr Wetschny (1891–1957), Lieutenant General
• Dmitri Jurjewitsch Pirog (* 1980), boxer

See also

• Administrative division of the Krasnodar Territory

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. ↑ Вечный Петр Пантелеймонович , pamyat-naroda.ru (Russian)

Web links

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

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)