Leningradskaya (russian: Ленингра́дская) is a
rural locality
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(a ''
stanitsa
A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Arm ...
'') and the
administrative center
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of
Leningradsky District Leningradsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia.
Districts of the federal subjects
* Leningradsky District, Krasnodar Krai, an administrative and municipal district of Krasnodar Krai
City divisions
* ...
in
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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.
It is requested that the name of the town be changed.
Population:
History
Founded in 1794 as Umanskoye (),
[Азаренкова А. С., Бондарь И. Ю., Вертышева Н. С. Основные административно-территориальные преобразования на Кубани (1793-1985 гг.). — Краснодар: Краснодарское книжное издательство, 1986. — С. 255. — 395 с.] it was one of the first forty settlements by the
Black Sea Cossacks
Black Sea Cossack Host (russian: Черномо́рское каза́чье во́йско; uk, Чорномо́рське коза́цьке ві́йсько ), also known as Chernomoriya (russian: Черномо́рия), was a Cossack host ...
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, ...
region. It became a ''
stanitsa
A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Arm ...
'' in 1842.
The ''stanitsa'' was the administrative center of the
Yeysky Otdel of the
Kuban Oblast
The Kuban Oblast was a province (''oblast'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It roughly corresponded to most of the Kuban and Circassia regions. It was created in 1860 out of Kuban Cossack territories that had once been part of ...
.
Umanskoye survived the fall of 1932 and the winter of 1933, when hundreds of residents starved to death. In 1934, all the surviving population (1,200 families) was evicted in the northern regions of the Soviet Union and to
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. In their stead, the ''stanitsa'' was repopulated by families from the Belarusian and Leningrad military districts and its name was changed to Leningradskaya.
References
Rural localities in Krasnodar Krai
Kuban Oblast
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