Kropotkin () is a

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, located on the right bank of the

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History

It was founded as Romanovsky Khutor in the late 18th century, and was renamed Kropotkin in honor of the outstanding natural scientist, geographer and revolutionary anarchist Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin on 4 February 1921, when it was granted town status. Population: 70,000 (1972); 42,000 (1939); 27,000 (1926).

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the

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of Kropotkin—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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.Reference Information #34.01-707/13-03 As a municipal division, the Town of Kropotkin is incorporated within Kavkazsky Municipal District as Kropotkinskoye Urban Settlement.

Transportation

The town's railway station is named Kavkazskaya.

Notable people

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, art gallery owner * Gennady Kovalev, boxer * Irina Pershina, swimmer * Tatyana Kostyrina,

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sniper * Vladimir Tumanov, legal scholar * Yuri Zhuravlyov, football player

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=September 2012 Cities and towns in Krasnodar Krai Peter Kropotkin 1921 establishments in Russia