A bit of history (historical information)

Kuban land is the ancient land. The favourable natural conditions and mild climate contributed to the fact that the first settlement appeared here very early. Ancient peoples sites, discovered on the territory of the region, allow to trace almost all archeological epochs. Ancient Kuban has very rich history: different tribes and nations set foot on this land ancient Greeks founded their towns-colonies, hordes of Hun, Khazars, Pechenegs, Polovets and Mongol-Tatars invaded this land. There were colonies of Italian merchants maintaining close relations with Adygeyan tribes. Later Turks managed to exert influence over Kuban.

The first Slavic settlement appeared in the X century, after the foundation of the Russian town Tmutarakan, which existed till the Mongol-Tatar invasion on Taman Peninsula. The second wave of Russian settlers was related to dispersal of the uprising of Kondratia Bulavina, when his fellow-fighter Ignat Nekrasov brought here rebels who survived.

The regular populating of Kuban by the Russian subjects started after two Russian-Turkish wars of XVIII century. On June 30,1792 Katherine II granted the lands of Taman Peninsula and the suburbs to the Black-Sea troops (former Zaporozh people), that became famous for their fighting with Turks, with the aim to protect new southern Russian frontiers. The first combatant Cossacks headed by Beliy arrived by sea and on August 25, 1792 landed in Taman.

The territory of the region was formed of a part of territories, occupied prior to the revolution by the Kuban Region and the Black Sea Province. Two administrative areas were united into the Kuban-an d-Black Sea region, which occupied 105.5 thousand sq.m. in 1920. The Northern Caucasian Region was formed in 1924 with the centre in Rostov-on-Don and in 1934 it was divided into the Azov-and-Black Sea region (with Rostov-on-Don as its centre) and the Northern-Caucasus Region (with Stavropol as its centre).

On September 13,1937 the Azov-and-Black Sea Region was divided into Rostov Region and Krasnodar Region with the territory of 85 thousand sq.m., including the Adygeyan Autonomous Region. In 1991 the Adygeyan Autonomous Region went out of Krasnodar Region and was reorganized in the Republic of Adygeya.