Main article: Subjects of the Russian Federation
Krasnodar Territory is a constituent entity of the Russian Federation located in the south-west of the country.
Geography
It is part of the Southern Federal District.
The area is larger than that of Azerbaijan or Ireland
The area is 75.485 thousand km ². For comparison, the area of Azerbaijan is 75.1 thousand km ², Ireland - 70.273 thousand km ².
Great Caucasian Range
Main article: Main Caucasian Range
Navagir Range
The Navagir Range (Navagir Range) is a small low-mountain range near the northwestern tip of the Caucasus Mountains, one of the two (along with the Kuznya Range) main mountain systems of the Abrau Peninsula.
The Indo-European version of the name "Navagir" is confirmed by the fact that the word has an accurate translation from Sanskrit, which has a clear toponymic meaning. "Nava" नव - young, new, recent, "gir" गिर् (or "giri" गिरि) - mountain. "Navagir" is a new, young mountain (mountains). The version of the Turkic origin of the toponym Navagir has no confirmation.
The Navagir ridge differs from other mountains of the Caucasus in that it was formed as a result of a strong compression of the earth's crust. The length of the ridge on the Abrau Peninsula reaches about 5 km, along the valley of the Sukko River. The peaks of the Navagir Range are the Sugar Head Mountains (540 m) and the Sorcerer (440 m). Mount Sorcerer is a remnant of a coastal ridge, part of which went under water as a result of earthquakes and formed the entrance to Tsemes Bay. An extension of this ridge on the other side of the bay is Mount Doob (452 m).
Most of the streams are temporary in nature and are associated with snowmelt, spring thunderstorms and winter drizzle. The slopes of the Navagir ridge between Anapa and Sukko are covered with juniper gorelnik, in the spring many poppies also bloom here.
Markoth and Tuaphat Ranges
The Markoth Range is a mountain range in the northwestern part of the Greater Caucasus, running parallel and south of the Main Caucasus Range. The average height of Markoth is 350-500 meters, and individual peaks rise above 600 meters.
On the site between Novorossiysk and Gelendzhik in the Kabardinka region passes the low Tuaphat ridge. In a depression between the two ridges, the Kabardinka-Gelendzhik highway was laid.
Seismic activity
Settlements
- Administration of the municipality of Armavir
- Administration of the municipality of Krasnodar
- Administration of the municipality of Novorossiysk
- Administration of the municipality Mostovsky district
Federal authorities
Territorial branches of federal authorities:
- Election Commission of the Krasnodar Territory
- Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory
- Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory
- Main Directorate of the Federal Bailiff Service for the Krasnodar Territory
- Office of the Federal Treasury for the Krasnodar Territory
- Office of the Federal Tax Service for the Krasnodar Territory
- Office of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygea
- Office of Special Communications for the Krasnodar Territory
- FIU branch in the Krasnodar Territory
Government
Main article: Administration of the Krasnodar Territory
Digitalization
- Department of Informatization and Communications of the Krasnodar Territory
- Electronic Krasnodar Municipal State Institution
2025
The government of the Krasnodar Territory removed the Latvian Zabbix system and switched to Russian software for monitoring CII
The Information Technology Center of the Krasnodar Territory has completed the migration from the Zabbix platform to the Russian monitoring system of the IT infrastructure "Remote." The developer of the domestic solution was the Laboratory Numerator company. The implemented system provides control over the regional multiservice network of executive bodies of the Krasnodar Territory. The transition to Russian software is related to the requirements of regulatory bodies on the use of domestic solutions for critical information infrastructure facilities. This was reported by the press service of the Laboratory Numerator company on October 1, 2025. Read more here.
The Electronic Krasnodar project for ₽1 billion has been launched. The money will go to the digitalization of state institutions of the city
More than ₽1 billion from the city and regional budgets will be allocated for the digitalization of state institutions in Krasnodar in 2025-2027. This is evidenced by the updated edition of the municipal program "Electronic Krasnodar," published by the city administration in February 2025. Read more here.
2024: Conversion to electronic format of 105 mass socially significant services
Krasnodar Territory presented the digital results of 2024. The region successfully coped with the achievement of key indicators of digitalization of the provision of public services. In addition, work continued to eliminate digital inequality and ensure the security of regional InformSystems.
In 2024, the Department of Informatization and Communications continued to actively introduce digital technologies aimed at improving the quality of the provision of electronic public services for citizens of the region, Stanislav Zavalny, head of the Department of Informatization and Communications of the Krasnodar Territory, chairman of the Public Council of the Digital Russia party project, told Digital Russia. This was announced on February 17, 2025 by the press service of Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications. In 2024, the region's digital agency focused on digitalizing social policy, eliminating digital inequality, ensuring information security and supporting local IT companies.
105 MSZUs (mass socially significant services) were transferred to electronic format, which fully corresponds to the established plan for the transfer of 100% of state and municipal services to digital format. At the end of the year, the number of Krasnodar residents with a confirmed account on a single portal of public services reached 4 million. The launch of services and services on the regional portal also continued. As of February 2025, it presents 189 state and 9 thousand municipal services.
As Zavalny noted, in 2024 the implementation of the federal project "Eliminating digital inequality" continued, aimed at ensuring the availability of mobile communications and the Internet for sparsely populated areas with the number of inhabitants from 100 to 1000 people. In 2024, the project installed base stations for cellular communications in 13 sparsely populated areas of the region, four more stations are in preparation for commissioning.
One of the key areas of the Department's work is ensuring the security of the regional information infrastructure.
| In order to timely detect and prevent computer attacks on state information resources, the department has created an Information Security Monitoring Center. The monitoring center operates on the basis of the State Unitary Enterprise CC "CIT" and has the status of the State system of detection, prevention and elimination of consequences of computer attacks Center for authorities on the basis of an agreement with the NKCKI, - said Zavalny. |
To ensure the maximum effectiveness of responding to cyber incidents, round-the-clock duty of the Monitoring Center employees has been organized, he said.
| Over the past five years, the annual revenue of IT companies has increased more than 3 times and today amounts to almost 76 billion rubles. Every year, the IT sector of the region only strengthens its position, gradually occupying a significant importance in the region's economy, the deputy emphasized. |
| In addition to federal benefits, the region also has regional support measures, including a tax benefit for companies operating under a simplified taxation system. The implementation of such measures not only creates more comfortable conditions for the IT IT-Business, but also allows companies to "stay" in the regions. Ultimately, this approach ensures the decentralized development of the IT industry in Russia, therefore, of course, it should be actively adopted by other regions of our country, the deputy emphasized. |
United Russia launched the Digital Russia party project in 2022 to promote the digitalization of the country. In particular, the project is aimed at supporting representatives of the IT sphere, ensuring the security of Internet users, developing digital currency and supporting Russian digital services.
2022: How the digitalization of the Krasnodar Territory goes
In May 2023, the head of the department of informatization and communications of the Krasnodar Territory Stanislav Zavalny spoke about the results of the ICT development of the region for 2022. In particular, he pointed to the achievement of the 95% import substitution rate during procurement procedures by the executive authorities of domestic software. In terms of the implementation of the digitalization program for small and medium-sized businesses, the region entered the top 5 regions in terms of the number of licenses sold for domestic software.
According to Zavalny, in 2022, 94 schools in the Krasnodar Territory carried out measures to form an IT infrastructure in accordance with the approved standard for ensuring safe access to information systems and the Internet in premises. 106 mass socially significant services were transferred to the unified portal of State Public services, of which 68 were state and 38 were municipal. In 331 state institutions of the region in 2022, electronic document management was introduced. In large municipalities of the region, the MPSC has 18 Cryptobiokabina software and hardware systems.
Stanislav Zavalny also said that in 2022 measures were taken to support IT companies and the telecom industry - tax rates were reduced for companies using a simplified tax system.
As part of the development of the regional geo-information system of the Krasnodar Territory, a strategic module has been created for the purpose of digitalization and ensuring urban planning, access to which is provided to all municipalities. Five executive authorities were connected to the regional geo-information system of the Krasnodar Territory.
In addition, in 2022, the construction of an IT park in Krasnodar continued. The basement and first floors of the complex were erected.[1]
2021: The strategy of digital transformation of the Krasnodar Territory has been approved
In August 2021, the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev approved the Strategy in the field of digital transformation of sectors of the economy, social sphere and public administration of the Krasnodar Territory for 2022-2024. You can familiarize yourself with the document by following the link.
Economy
Main article: Economy of the Krasnodar Territory
Education
Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of Krasnodar Kra Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of Krasnodar Territory]]
Universities of the Krasnodar Territory
- Kuban State University
- Kuban State University of Technology
- Kuban State Agrarian University named after I.T. Trubilin
- Kuban State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism
- Kuban State Medical University
- Ushakov State Maritime University
- Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the russian
- Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after Hero of the Soviet Union A.K. Serov
- Krasnodar State Institute of Culture
- Armavir State Pedagogical University
- Sochi State University
- Kuban Medical Institute
- International Innovation University
- Plekhanov Russian University of Economics - branch in Krasnodar
- North Caucasus Branch of the Russian State University of Justice - branch in Krasnodar
Colleges and organizations of DPO
- SBPEI "Sochi Medical College"
- POU DPO "Institute for Advanced Training and Retraining of Personnel"
- Military Patriotic Center named after V.G. Kazantsev
Educational centers
Health care
Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory
Clinics
- GBUZ "Research Institute - Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1 named after Professor S.V. Ochapovsky"
- GBUZ "Children's City Clinical Hospital of Krasnodar" of the Ministry of Health of the Krasnodar Territory
- Children's Regional Clinical Hospital of Krasnodar
- City Hospital No. 2 of Krasnodar
- "Center for Laboratory Technologies" (Kuban Laboratories) GBUZ "DGKB Krasnodar" MZ KK
- FSAU "National Medical Research Center" Intersectoral Scientific and Technical Complex "Eye Microsurgery" named after Academician S.N. Fedorov "- branch in Krasnodar
- Federal State Budgetary Institution "Novorossiysk Clinical Center of Medical and Biological Agency"
- OJSC "Center for Restorative Medicine and Rehabilitation" Krasnodar Balneopathic Hospital "
- LLC "Clinic Catherine" (Network of private medical centers)
- OKSI-Center LLC (Center for Reproductive Medicine)
- Family Traditions LLC (Dental Clinic)
- Aesthetic Mania LLC (Aesthetic Medicine Clinic)
- Ophthalmika LLC (Ophthalmological Eye Clinic, Novorossiysk)
- OOO "ITAN" (Medical Enterprise, Sochi)
- LLC Medical Diagnostic Center "ALICE" (Sochi)
- Vita Nova Aesthetic Medicine Clinic (MedTech LLC)
- Medical Center "ZIMAMED" (LLC "Health of Kuban," LLC "Formula Health," LLC "Impulse")
- Proxima Medical Clinical Center (Optimum Medical Laboratory LLC, Sochi)
- Abinsk Central District Hospital
- Korenovsky neuropsychiatric boarding school
- Clinical Oncological Dispensary No. 1, Krasnodar
Culture
Ministry of Culture of the Krasnodar Territory
- GBUK CC "Krasnodar State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve named after E.D. Felitsyna"
- GBUK CC "Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F.A. Kovalenko"
- GBUK "Krasnodar Regional Children's Library named after the Ignatov Brothers"
- GKU "State Archive of the Krasnodar Territory"
- MUK "Centralized Library System of the City of Krasnodar"
Sport
History
Main article: History of Russia
2021: Map of Krasnodar Territory
1907: Opening of the monument to Catherine II
1904
1828: The beginning of the construction of Russian fortifications on the coast of the West Caucasus
1783: The song "Lyubo, brothers, lyubo..."
Main article: Music in Russia in the XVIII century
The Cossack song "Lyubo, brothers, lyubo..." gained popularity in the twentieth century, and - in an abbreviated text version. Her story was almost forgotten, and meanwhile, the song echoes the tragic events of the time of the annexation of Crimea.
In 1783, following the order of G.A. Potemkin, Russian troops under the command of Suvorov tried to resettle the Nogai Tatars from Prikuban to the Dniester. In response to this deportation, the Nogais rebelled. Chasing huge herds in front of them, sweeping away everything in their path, tens of thousands of warlike Tatars rushed into the expanses of the Kuban. Fulfilling the order: "fence the horde's way to Zakubanye," the Don Cossacks took a terrible enemy strike on one of the branches of the Kuban River - Eric Chyorny. In memory of that battle unheard of for bloodshed, the song "Love, brothers, love" remained....
964: Black Bulgarians and Skins
527: The Lands of the Bosporus Kingdom Come under Direct Byzantine Control
Somehow, the Goths apparently left or were expelled, leading to the resumption of local self-government of the Bosporus Kingdom in the late 5th century under rulers such as Duptunos, who refocused the kingdom on the Byzantine Empire as a client state. This reorientation is also confirmed by the presence of Byzantine coins in Crimea, including those of emperors Justin I (518-527) and Justinian I (527-565). By the time of Justinian, Bosporus was again under the rule of the Hunnic ruler Gordas. Although Gordas maintained good relations with Justinian, he was killed during an uprising in 527, which forced the emperor to send armies to Bosporus, conquering the lands of the kingdom and establishing control of the Byzantine Empire there.
476: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Crisis in Dependent Cities in the Northern Black Sea Region
In 476, the last Roman emperor was overthrown, which marked the end of the existence of the Roman Empire and, accordingly, the loss of control over its colonies, including in the Northern Black Sea region.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Greek and Roman colonies in the Northern Black Sea region experienced a crisis, but many of them continued to exist as part of the Byzantine Empire, becoming an outpost of Christian civilization. During the Great Migration of Peoples and subsequent invasions of various tribes (Goths, Huns, Khazars, Polovtsy), cities experienced decay or were destroyed, and the Greek population assimilated or emigrated.
200: Building houses in Gorgippia in present-day Anapa
During excavations of Gorgippia, located on the territory of modern Anapa (Krasnodar Territory), by 2025 the remains of 60 houses of different times were investigated. The most studied residential building of the first centuries AD. On the territory of the reserve found the remains of 22 houses of this era. See Bosporus Kingdom for details .
186: Statue of Neocles in Gorgippia
For more details, see Bosporus Kingdom
30 BC: Meotas, Zichas, Achaea
480 BC: Unification of part of the settlements on the shores of Bosporus of Cimmeria under the leadership of Panticapaeus into the future Bosporus kingdom
Main article: The Bosporus Kingdom
In 480 BC, part of the Greek settlements on the shores of Bosporus of Cimmeria united, subsequently forming an independent state of the Bosporus Kingdom with its capital in the city of Panticapeia (on the site of modern Kerch).
640 BC: Scythians and Greek colonies
Main article: Greek colonies in Russia
III thousand BC: Dolmen culture
In the Middle Bronze era of the XX-XIV centuries BC. The territory of the Sochi region is included in the cultural center covering Prikuban and Georgia. This stage here is represented by dolmenny cultural monuments.
3900 BC: Maykop culture
Maykop archaeological culture of the early Bronze Age (early 4th - beginning. 3rd millennium BC e.) on the territory of the plains and foothills of the western and central parts of the North Caucasus and the Ciscaucasia.
It occupied the basins of the Kuban, Upper Kuma, Upper and Middle Terek, the adjacent regions of the Black Sea coast (from Taman to the modern city of Novorossiysk) and the steppes of the modern Stavropol Territory (isolated monuments are known to the Lower Don and modern Kalmykia - the so-called steppe Maykop); separate finds - from the Northern Black Sea region to the Caspian Sea.
1.6 million hp: Taman faunal complex: elephants, rhinos, hyenas and leopards on the Taman Peninsula and the Lower Don
Main article: Faunistic complexes of quaternary mammals
1.6-0.8 million years ago - Taman (Absheron) faunal complex. As a result of a number of factors, the death and burial of skeletons of large, mainly thick-skinned animals - elephants and rhinos - took place in the caldera of one of the large mud volcanoes (Blue Balka/Bogatyri). Animals died in this place, bogged down in a furnace of mud, unable to get out of the basin with steep banks, became easy prey for predators or died from poisonous gases periodically emitted by the volcano. The accumulation of carcasses did not occur simultaneously, but over a relatively long time. Read more here.
2.05 million hp: The first tools of human labor
Main article: Paleolithic in Russia
175 mln hp: Formation of the Big Caucasus basin
The split of South America and Africa (with Arabia) led to an increase in the oceanic lithosphere between them and, which is very important for the Caucasus, to a reduction in the distance between Africa and Eurasia. The Tethys Ocean began to shrink in size.
Where the oceanic crust of the Tethys Ocean pushed hard under the edge of the Scythian Plate, this edge weakened. This is due to the fact that the ocean plate, going down, melts, and the excess of molten matter tries to break up.
Rifting began to occur on the weakened edge of the plate - the formation of rifts with the extension of the split fragments of the previous base. The new crust was expanding toward the ocean. The crust was generally continental, granite, but broken by outpourings of basalts. So (at the end of the Lower and beginning of the Middle Jurassic, something about 175 million hp) the so-called Big Caucasus basin was formed. It was a marginal sea. It was separated from the main ocean of Tethys by an island volcanic arc, the existence of which is also explained by the weakening of the lithosphere in the subduction zone, the sub-wave, and the breakthrough of magma to the surface with the formation of volcanoes. The Big Caucasus Basin was extended 1700-1800 km long and 300 km wide.
270 million hp: Collapse of the mountains and the formation of the Scythian platform
Main article: The history of the Earth before the appearance of hominids
In the Permian period (its time interval from 299 to 250 million hp), the orogen (mountain structure) began to experience collapse, the rapid disappearance of mountains. The reasons for the collapse are the following. Since this orogen was not sandwiched between the mainland massifs, but arose due to the departure of the ocean plate under the continent, with the weakening of pressure and immersion of the ocean plate, the forces raising mountains weakened. The blocks forming the mountains began to slide down. The crumpled, compressed, compressed folds were then permeated with granite intrusions (incursions). These intrusions, as it were, reinforced and fixed the folds. Pressure and temperatures turned sedimentary and volcanic rocks into chlorite and sericite shales, which mainly form the Scythian Plate[2].
So along the northern edge of the Tethys Ocean, on the site of today's plains of the Ciscaucasia, a young (compared to the ancient Russian platform) Scythian platform was formed from a movable belt. Its latitudinally extending folds and slightly still mobile heterogeneous blocks hold memories of the processes of compression and life of the mountain structure. Despite the fact that we practically cannot see them.
As a result, the main result of the events of that time, the end of the Paleozoic, was the formation of the Scythian platform, soldered to the Russian platform along its current southern edge.
335 million hp: The rapprochement of Laurasia and Gondwana leads to subduction and volcanic activity
In the second half of the Paleozoic, there is a rapprochement between Laurasia (North America plus Europe) and Gondwana (Africa plus South America).
In the process of rapprochement in the south of the Russian platform, where the Ciscaucasia is spread today, an area of folding is formed, a movable belt associated with the existence of a subduction zone, when the oceanic crust is absorbed under the mainland, weakening its edge and ensuring volcanic activity and mobility of the crust of the entire region.
Globally, the approach at the end of the Paleozoic ended with the collision of Laurasia and Gondwana and the formation of the supermateric or supercontinent Pangaea.
Locally, in the process of rapprochement, the mentioned mobile belt experienced its evolution, lived its history. His story is a local episode of the global picture of the convergence of lithospheric plates.
Compression deformations in the movable belt, which created a folded structure, began in the middle of the Visean age of the early Carboniferous period, Carboniferous (about 335 million hp). The cause of the deformations was the pressure of the oceanic crust on the belt during the approach of the mainland blocks. They turned the movable belt, the future Scythian platform, into an orogen, a mining structure.




