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	Kuban River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kuban (Куба́нь) is a river in Russia, in the Northern Caucasus region.
		The Kuban flows 870 km north and west from its source near Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus Mountains, eventually reaching the Sea of Azov.
		Cities along the Kuban are Karachayevsk, Cherkessk, Nevinnomyssk, Armavir, Krasnodar and Temryuk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuban_River (119 words)

	Azov, Sea of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Azov is located between mainland Ukraine in the north, the Crimea in the west, and the Kuban region in the east.
		From 1792 the Kuban region was settled as the
		River, the Volga River, the Caspian Sea, Moscow, etc became directly accessible by water.
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/A/Z/AzovSeaof.htm (1115 words)

	KUBAN (RIVER) - LoveToKnow Article on KUBAN (RIVER) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His son Hermann (1828-1890), who was appointed Consistorialrath in Stettin in 1877, was the author of Deutsches Leben in Nordamerika (1874).
		The Kuban is the ancient Hypanis and Vardanes and the Pshishche of the Circassians.
		On the south the province includes the parallel ranges of the Black Mountains (Kara-dagh), 3000 to 6000 ft. high, which are intersected by gorges that grow deeper and wider as the main range is approached.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KU/KUBAN_RIVER_.htm (1245 words)

	Laba River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laba River or Bolshaya Laba River (Big Laba River, Большая Лаба) is a 214 km long river in Northern Caucasus, Russian Federation.
		It is a left tributary of Kuban River, which it meets in Ust-Labinsk.
		Malaya Laba River (Small Laba River, Малая Лаба) is a river in Northern Caucasus, a tributary of Big Laba, also used for rafting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laba_River (126 words)

	Kommersant: Krasnodar Territory
		On January 16, 1778, Field Marshal Aleksandr Suvorov arrived in the Kuban and under his leadership 5 large fortresses and 20 redoubts were quickly built on the right bank of the Kuban River.
		Kuban Region was formed in 1861, renamed Black Sea (Chernomorsky) District with its center in Novorossiysk in 1867, and renamed again to Black Sea Province in 1896.
		The Kuban River forms a large swampy delta known as the Kuban Marshes where it flows into the Sea of Azov.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=-84 (5283 words)

	Black Sea Cossacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the end of the war the Russian government did not want the Cossack host to be settled close to the center of Ukraine and to the
		Cossacks in the Kuban region, along what was known as the
		River and of participating in the Caucasian campaigns.
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/B/L/BlackSeaCossacks.htm (375 words)

	Karlsruhe: Twin Towns - Krasnodar
		Krasnodar, the capital of the Kuban region, is the most southerly district capital of Russia.
		This metropolis on the banks of the River Kuban, whose waters flow into the Sea of Azov, today has over 765,000 inhabitants, citizens with nationalities ranging from Russian, Ukrainian, Armenian to Greek and German.
		The area around the Kuban at the foot of the snow-capped Caucasus not far from the Black Sea is known as "the pearl of Russia." And it was not only Cossacks that the Tsarina sent to these fertile fields along the river.
	www.karlsruhe.de /Magazin/Partnerstaedte/krasnodar.en.htm (1014 words)

	Kuban River -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		It extends from the Kuban River south to the Caucasus foothills.
		Rivers are also a principal natural force in shaping land surfaces.
		The second longest river in South America after the Amazon, the Paraná River joins with the Paraguay and Uruguay Rivers before emptying into the Río de la Plata estuary on its way to the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9369473?tocId=9369473 (833 words)

	Rivers' Names Laba and Kuban by Sergei V. Rjabchikov - English
		On the other hand, this river's name can preserve in the name of the Circassian aul (village) Ulyap (Republic of Adygea, Russia) which is situated not far from the river Laba.
		It is the fiery river Smorodina [*S moro] 'Near the sea; near the death' and the scorching bridge [kalynovyy most] is located there.
		So the name of the river Kuban was dedicated in my opinion to the solar deity.
	public.kubsu.ru /~usr02898/sl8.htm (458 words)

	Kuban on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russia annexed the khanate of Crimea, of which the Kuban area was a part, in 1783.
		to 1920 the territory of the Kuban Cossacks.
		In 1860 they were renamed the Kuban Cossacks, while defending the Kuban region from hostile Circassian mountaineers to the south.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/K/Kuban.asp (559 words)

	Pravda.RU:Kuban River Bursts Its Banks, Threatening To Flood Temryuk City
		The water level in the river reached 250 centimetres, a 60-centimetre increase on the critical point.
		Fluctuations of the water level in rivers of the Krasnodar Territory have been observed since December 19.
		This was caused by a heavy snowfall and a sharp temperature overfall.
	english.pravda.ru /region/2002/01/10/25176_.html (284 words)

	Russian Science News
		The scientists believe it to be the traces of colonization: these formerly very rich people tried to assimilate other regions at the end of their history.
		After having spent some five hundred years in the fertile valley of the Kuban River, Maykop people disappeared suddenly from there and now the scientists find their traces between the Caspian Sea and the Sea of Azov.
		According to modern data, Maykop people moved from the Kuban River valley to the North, to the banks of the Don River, and then turned to the Southeast, to the open steppes.
	www.informnauka.ru /eng/2001/2001-10-19-0351_e.htm (601 words)

	Did Odin Exist? by Sergei V. Rjabchikov - English
		The mysterious river Smorodina mentioned in some Russian fairy-tales is indeed the Kuban river.
		In a Russian fairy-tale, Ivan Bykovich (Ivan, a Son of the Bull), a fiery (kalinovy in Russian) bridge at the Smorodina river is mentioned; in another variant of this fairy-tale, Burya-bogatyr' i Ivan korovy syn (The Hero Storm and Ivan, a Son of the Cow), a fiery bridge near the Black Sea is mentioned.
		Afterwards this ruler and his warriors were forced out by the Roman and Bosporan troops from the area of the Don river, and then this group of the Proto-Slavs migrated to Scandinavia.
	public.kubsu.ru /~usr02898/sl46.htm (549 words)

	Kuban
		Kuban, river, c.570 mi (920 km) long, rising in the Greater Caucasus on the western slopes of Mt. Elbrus, S European Russia, and flowing north in a wide arc past Karachayevsk, Cherkessk, and Armavir, then W past Krasnodar, entering the Sea of Azov through two arms.
		Its upper course is precipitous and leads through several gorges; it then meanders slowly through the Kuban Steppe, a rich fl-earth area and one of the major grain and sugar-beet districts of Russia.
		Cossacks in Ukraine, some of them emigrated to Turkey, but in 1787 they were allowed to return and settle along the Black Sea between the Dnieper and the Buh rivers.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0828301.html (308 words)

	ITAR-TASS: KUBAN RIVER SWELLS, EVACUATION IN TEMRYUK@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MOSCOW, Jan 10, 2002 (Itar-Tass via COMTEX) -- As many as 3,000 residents of the city of Temryuk in the Krasnodar territory have been evacuated from their houses as the water level in the Kuban river rose, Tass learnt from the Russian Emergencies Ministry on Thursday.
		Water in the Kuban River rose to 2.5 metres, exceeding the critical level by 60 centimeters.
		As many as 48 residential houses in Temryuk are in the flood zone and another 518 houses are threatened with floods.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:49430953&... (200 words)

	Karaçay-Circassian Republic
		The plain lands located in the north are watered with the rivers of Hurzuk, Ulu Kam and Uçkalan that spring from the Great Caucasus mountain chain and the Kuban River that is formed from the combination of these rivers.
		These plains are also alimented by the rivers of Duvut, teberdi, Arhız, Maruka, Zelencuk, Urup and Lapa that spring from Karacay Mountains running into the Kuban River.
		Lots of historical, anthropological, archaeological and sociolinguistic researches were carried out about the Turks from Karacay and Malkar that lived in the region of Kuban River for centuries.
	www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0007/0007_11.htm (995 words)

	Russian - Circassian War by Kadir Natho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Just the same, the Russian foreign policy remained to be “to ensure the security of the southern boundaries of Russia and to gain a passage to the warm seas.” In order to achieve that plan, Russia had to establish her presence in the Caucasus and on the Caspian coast.
		The Russian Cossacks, who had reached the banks of the Kuban River, met in the Circassians exceptional enemies and the territory of Circassia became the place of their bloody struggle.
		On April 13, 1838, the squadron of Rear Admiral Artiukov with the landing detachment approached the estuary of river Sochi and the first part of the landing troops, which was boarded on rowing vessels, landed on the coast and seized the adjacent heights.
	circassianworld.5u.com /russo_circassian_war.html (18893 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Panzer Army reaches the Kuban River south of Rostov.
		Panzer Army establishes a bridgehead over the Kuban River, threatening the oil fields at Maikop.
		Panzer Army cross the Kuban River at Armavir.
	www.bartcop.com /arc4208.htm (2634 words)

	GLASNOST DEFENSE FOUNDATION'S DIGEST No. 167 (January 26, 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Last week, the editors of the Kuban River area's leading public-and-political newspapers - Volnaya Kuban, Kuban Segodnya and Zhemchuzhina Rossii - appealed to the Krasnodar Territory's Governor A. Tkachev in connection with the planned privatization of the publishing house Sovetskaya Kuban.
		The editors V. Lameikin (Volnaya Kuban), V. Mokrotovarov (Kuban Segodnya) and V. Smeyukha (Zhemchuzhina Rossii) urged Governor Tkachev to "make sure that the next session of the Krasnodar Territory's Legislative Assembly hears a report by V. Bondar, head of the Territorial Property Relations Department, on progress in Sovetskaya Kuban's privatization".
		Although I can well understand the Kuban editors' concerns, it is fairly difficult to find words or reasons that might be a consolation to them.
	www.gdf.ru /digest/digest/digest167e.shtml (2742 words)

	Tmutarakan' by Sergei V. Rjabchikov - English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The artifacts from Tmutarakan' are exhibited in the Kuban museums.
		The Greek was shoving a finger in the river, and the crawfish was seizing the Greek by the finger'.
		Interestingly, one charm tells of the stone Alatyr' together with the fiery river (it is the river Smorodina [S moro] 'Near the sea; near the death' (Kuban*) of the Russian fairy-tales) and the scorching bridge [kalynovyy most].
	www.openweb.ru /rongo/tmtrkn.htm (11278 words)

	Ethnic Map of the Caucasus in 1880 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The range extends from the Abseron Peninsula on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea to the mouth of the Kuban' River on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea.
		The western region is drained by the Kuban' River and the eastern portion by the Kura River.
		The map measures 10 1/2" x 13 1/4" has an image size of 8" X 11 1/2" and is in VERY GOOD CONDITION.
	www.geocities.com /master8885/Maps/1880.html (154 words)

	Kuban kleverness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Russia Kuban Territory SG19 a Invert Opt MNH
		Kuban, Susan Y. Portraits for families or corporations, in oil or pastel, by established artist, available for commissions.
		Outlines its renowned collection of Scythian antiquities, mainly from burial complexes in the Crimea, Kuban basin and in the valleys of the Dnieper and Don rivers.
	www.thingsthatstartwithk.com /kuban.html (279 words)

	Russian River Ships - Shipping Companies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Passenger and cargo shipping on the rivers of Kaliningrad Region (earlier including soviet baltic republics), "river-sea" shipping on Baltic sea.
		Passenger and cargo shipping on Moskva (Moscow river), Oka, Moscow-Volga canal, Upper Volga, Seliger and Upper-Volga lakes, "river-sea" shipping on Azov, Black and Mediterranean seas.
		Only the soviet-time inland shipping companies are listed, whose history has become the part of the russian river fleet's history.
	www.riverships.ru /english/shipping.shtml (335 words)

	Krasnodar Hotels. Airline Tickets Krasnodar, Russia.
		The city is located on the banks of the Kuban river.
		By the end of the 19th century Krasnodar was turned into trading, industrial and transport center of the Kuban region.
		Noadays Krasnodar is the religious center of Kuban region.
	www.visitrussia.com /citiesguide/krasnodar/krasnodar.htm (215 words)

	Circassia on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(serkăsh´ēe), historic region, encompassing roughly the area between the Black Sea, the Kuban River, and the Caucasus, now largely the Krasnodar Territory of SE European Russia.
		At this time the Circassians occupied almost the entire area between the main Caucasian range, the Kuban River, and the Black Sea.
		In the many Russo-Turkish wars in the first half of the 19th cent., the Circassians bitterly fought the Russians.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Circassi.asp (348 words)

	Soviet biplane fighter aces - Pavel Kryukov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During the autumn he commanded a training eskadrilya in the regiment where he together with the ace to be Pokrishkin trained new pilots.
		During the Kuban River operations of early 1943 the unit was re-equipped with P-39 Airacobras.
		Totally during the Kuban River operations he flew 50 sorties and claimed 6 and 1 shared victories.
	www.bahnhof.se /~surfcity/soviet_kryukov.htm (739 words)

	WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: August
		August 6, 1942: Units of 1.Panzerarmee (von Kleist) cross the Kuban river at Armavir.
		August 14, 1942: German forces cross the upper Kuban river at Krasnodar in the Caucasus.
		August 22, 1944: The Red Army recaptures Jassy on the Dnestr river in the souther Ukraine.
	www.feldgrau.com /august.html (1634 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Kuban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Kuban (Russian: Кубань) is a region of Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between Ukraine and the Caucasus.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Kuban; all previous versions may be viewed here.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Kuban (201 words)

	RFPF Information Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		17:34 Kuban River Shipping company will not pay 2000dividends.
		Kuban River Shipping company (Krasnodar) will not pay 2000dividends as it finished the year 2000 with 2 m rub.
		The decision not to pay dividends is to be approved at the company AGM on June 8, 2001.
	www.akm.ru /eng/rffi/news/010510.stm (46 words)

	Paluxy Dinosaur/"Man Track" controversy
		or many years claims were made by strict creationists that human footprints or "giant man tracks" occur alongside dinosaur tracks in the limestone beds of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose Texas.
		If true, such a finding would dramatically contradict the conventional geologic timetable, which holds that humans did not appear on earth until over 60 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct.
		Paluxy River Track References, compiled by Paul Heinrich
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/paluxy.html (551 words)

	Pravda.RU Kuban River Bursts Its Banks, Threatening To Flood Temryuk City
		Pravda.RU Kuban River Bursts Its Banks, Threatening To Flood Temryuk City
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		The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
	english.pravda.ru /region/2002/01/10/25176.html (2024 words)

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