Virtual tour: Armavir city
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General information
History
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churches and mosques
museums and theatres
monuments
other sights
Surroundings
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Armavir is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kuban River. Population: 188,832 (2010 Census). Armavir was formerly the second-largest industrial center of Krasnodar Krai, after Krasnodar.
Armavir city flag
Armavir city coat of arms
HISTORY
The area of today's Armavir was first inhabited by Abazins. Later Turkic Tatars from the Crimean Khanate also settled here. As a result of the Caucasian War the remaining Abazins were forced to emigrate from Southern Russia to the Ottoman Empire. Armavir is also claimed to be a part of the historical land of the Circassians.
The contemporary settlement was founded in 1839 by Cherkesogai Armenians as Armyansky aul (Армя́нский ау́л). In 1848 it was named Armavir, after the ancient capital of Armenia.
During the Russian Civil War of 1918–1920, a number of brutal battles took place near the city. The Taman army's military campaign ended in Armavir in 1918. The Soviet authority was established in Armavir in March 1920. During World War II, the city was occupied by the German Army. It was liberated by the Red Army in January 1943.
There are about 340 architectural and historical monuments in Armavir, among them as follows:
churches and mosques
museums and theatres
monuments
other sights
surroundings
Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Церковь Пресвятой Богородицы
apostolic church of Armenia
at Kirov Str., 5/2
The museum of local study
Армавирский краеведческий музей
possesses 75,000 exhibits and has the largest in the Caucasus collection of stone sculptures
А monument to Bulgakov’s cat Behemoth from “Master and Margaret”
Lenin monument in Central Square, the exact copy of the monument located in front of Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg.
There are two music and an art school, several libraries and clubs, Recreation Park, City House of Culture in the city.
The nearest surroundings are rich in unique palaeontological and geological monuments, their formation is linked with various periods of the Sarmatskoye Sea development (12-20 million years ago).
There are numerous archaeological monuments: sites of the early Stone Age, hills of the early and middle Bronze Age.
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