One tenth of the Russian grain is harvested in the Krasnodar Krai.
Here for the first time in our country rice and tea were planted, and for the first time they established!
In Kuban, they say that the Cossacks brought rice from the Turkish campaign.
They were here because of Catherine II.
The victory in the Russo-Turkish War extended the borders of the Russian empire.
The need for Zaporizhzhya Sich as a defense against the Crimean Khanate disappeared.
And the Sich was cut off.
but the fighting experience of the Zaporizhzhya people was needed on the border with the Caucasus.
They were given land on the Kuban River for their service.
The Cossacks named the fortress after the Empress – Yekaterinodar.
Multinational province became a home for those who fled religious persecution or went to work on fertile land.
Today, Krasnodar is among the fastest-growing Russian cities.
The Black Sea coast of the region is a unique place for vacations: the distance from ski resorts to beaches here sometimes is less than 50 kilometers.
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