Kanevskaya (russian: Каневска́я) is a
stanitsa and the administrative center of
Kanevskoy District
Kanevskoy District (russian: Каневско́й райо́н), known as Kanevsky District () before March 2009, is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.Reference Information #34.01-707/13-03 As a ...
of
Krasnodar Krai
Krasnodar Krai (russian: Краснода́рский край, r=Krasnodarsky kray, p=krəsnɐˈdarskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of t ...
,
Russia
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.
History
Kanevskaya was founded in 1794 among the first forty settlements of the Black Sea Cossacks in the
Kuban
Kuban (Russian language, Russian and Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Кубань; ady, Пшызэ) is a historical and geographical region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Pontic–Caspian steppe, ...
. The name was transferred from the kuren of the Zaporizhzhya Sich.
Population
Population: 44,755 (2002); 45,334 (2020);
It is the largest village in
Russia
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and
Eastern Europe
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.
References
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Rural localities in Krasnodar Krai
Kanevskoy District
Kuban Oblast