As I promised, I am spreading a post about the wonderful city of Kropotkin. 
The city of Kropotkin is located in the Krasnodar Territory. It is the administrative center of the Caucasian region. The population of the city is over 80,000 people.
In order not to tire the reader with searches in Google, I made a small selection of information from the site of the city of Kropotkin.
Kropotkin is a picturesque southern city located in the east of the Krasnodar Territory. On its territory there are 16 burial mounds of the Bronze Age and the Middle Ages, monuments of the war years, the Holy Intercession Cathedral, the Museum of History and Local Lore, parks and alleys. The city has two stadiums, a swimming pool with 50-meter lanes, and a cinema.
The history of the founding of the city of Kropotkin is closely connected with the activities of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov in the Kuban. The beginning of settlement on the site of the present city dates back to 1778, when, among other fortifications, the Romanovsky post was built. Suvorov A.V. established a Cossack guard post at the ford to protect the crossing of the Kuban River, reinforcing it with a small redoubt. Since 1783, post No. 1 Romanovsky began to be designated as a redoubt on military maps. At first, the inscription read: "Redoubt at the Dry Oak in the Romanovskaya ferry", then the name became more laconic "Redoubt at the Dry Oak".
In 1875, the Rostov-Vladikavkaz railway (now the North Caucasian railway), under construction, went into operation, running through the former Romanovsky post, the village of Nevinnomysskaya, the Kuban river valleys. Kuma, Terek.
According to the first census of 1894, there were 959 households in the Romanovsky farm and 8147 people lived.
In 1921, the chairman of the farm executive committee, Glukhikh, made a proposal to the Kuban-Black Sea regional executive committee to rename the Romanovsky farm to the city of Kropotkin, in honor of the scientist, geologist and geographer, theorist of anarchism P.A.Kropotkin. The Romanovsky farm on 04/14/1921 (03/14/1921 met such an option) was transformed into the city of Kropotkin.
We went to this glorious city for a special reason (look at the top of the billboard). By the way, pay attention to the masterly installation of the banner. The external block of the split-system harmoniously blended into the word "November", thereby setting a new trend for the symbiosis of advertising posters with facade elements. 
The exhibition was held in the Palace of Culture of Railway Workers. A small room was allocated for the exhibition, in which there was not enough space for participants and visitors. It was cramped and stuffy. I am a small fan of cat exhibitions, so after carrying things out of the car and setting up a tent, I went for a walk around the city. It was very cloudy. 
The central street of the city is Krasnaya street. 
I remember that when I first saw such a tree as a child, I thought it was a bird's nest. 
This watch made me very excited. If they also showed the time exactly, the price would not have been there. 
The central street pleasantly surprised us with the abundance of flower beds. 
In addition to flower beds and flower beds, Kropotkin amazes with the number of benches. 
The building of the prosecutor's office. There are not many such historical buildings. The eye rejoices when you look. I do not like modern boring new buildings made of glass and concrete. 
The building of the Cossack army. 
Police. A very beautiful building, but I would not like to be there on business. 
The main attraction of Kropotkin is the historical building of the railway station.
Station Kavkazskaya is a junction railway station that belongs to the Krasnodar branch of the North Caucasian Railway and is located in the city of Kropotkin. The station was built in 1874 and the first train was dispatched at the same time. And the station building was erected in 1903 (I met information about 1902). 
Previously, the building looked like this (1875). I found the photo on the Russian Railways website.
Somewhere I found information that during the Great Patriotic War the station was damaged and later restored. I can't find it now. Glory to the Great Google-Yandex! 
Looks better from a distance. All windows must be the same. A plastic-metal door on a historic building is not cool! 
The fountain in the forecourt was turned off, so he did not take it off. I am sure that in working condition - it is incomparable. But he rented a cinema. 
State bank. 
Kropotkin is a green city! 
The sign of the city museum is made in a 3D version with an aging effect. Unfortunately, the museum was closed and I was not able to visit it. 
Administration building. Here I turned from Krasnaya Street towards the market. 
Do you have flying night lanterns in town? 
I liked the architecture of the city. Nice, modest and tasteful, but only on the main street. 
Holy Protection Cathedral. Located opposite the gates of the central market. Why this angle? The parking lot and passing Gazelles left no other choice. Electrical wires also do not improve composition. There are better photos of the cathedral on the web.
Here's what we managed to find on the city forum.
In 1894, a missionary monastery was established in the Romanovsky farm. The first temple of the monks was a temple in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The Holy Intercession Cathedral was built later, in 1912. The prayer Temple in honor of the Kazan Icon was destroyed at the end of the 30s of the last century.
The missionary monastery in the Romanovsky farm was closed in 1922, and the Holy Intercession Cathedral and the Kazan Church remained.
From 1929 to 1943 there were no services in the Cathedral. Since 1976, there has been a major restoration. The domes were covered with copper, wall paintings were made inside, the Iconostasis was restored and gilded. The restoration of ancient icons continues to this day.
After 1991, 12 cells were returned. In 1999, a bell tower was built, the Kazan Church was restored (in a different form), where the sacrament of Baptism is performed. 
Central market. I wanted to buy a souvenir as a keepsake. So I didn't find anything. Kropotkin is not a tourist city. People looked at the person with the camera unhealthily. I even heard such a dialogue between women: "I found what to shoot. We have nothing to shoot here." 
Home is like home. I was hooked by its color. 
They love and read books here. 
Kropotkin impressed me with the number of boutiques. Italians could be jealous! 
A boutique for the common people. Puddles included. 
There is a love bench next to the registry office. 
Naturally, sitting on a bench, you feel love. 
Again "Police", but now from afar. 
Well, what did I tell you? If you need to dress up, you now know where to do it. 
Have you been to Italy? When I saw this, a feeling of nostalgia seized. Isn't it "Tabacci"? 
Now let's get back to the exhibition. You observe such a picture for several hours. Is it clear why I didn't sit there? 
The cats are a little tense. 
Those cute kittens. Dazzling white, washed in Tide. 
We are the champions! 
My son and I went to have lunch at a local pizzeria. There are no photos, and there is nothing to take there, we are very hungry. Then there were fees and the way back.
In our region, Kropotkin is famous for his beer. To be honest, the beer is so-so, cannot be compared with German, but I could not help but try. I announce the week of Kropotkin beer!
Not all varieties are shown in the photo. On
Kropotkin is located in the east of the Krasnodar Territory, on the right bank of the Kuban, 136 kilometers north-east of the regional capital. It is the capital of the Caucasian region, a significant transport hub and a dynamically developing city. The area of the city is 85.2 km².
Since the end of the 18th century, on the site of Kropotkin, there was a military "post No. 1 at the Burnt Oak" near the ford across the Kuban, in order to prevent the Circassian raids. In 1879, the Romanovsky farm appeared here on the land of the Caucasian village. When the railway was also built at the end of the 19th century, Romanovsky gained importance as a trade and transport center. After a while, industry and trade began to develop. In 1905, a new building of the railway station was built, making it the most beautiful on the North Caucasian railway. Also that year, a library, a railway school, a water supply system, and so on appeared. In 1912, there were 38 industrial enterprises and 38 trading establishments on the farm.
By 1917, an elevator, a fire station, a carriage, a locomotive depot, and so on were opened. In 1921, the farm received city status and the name Kropotkin. Three years later, it became a regional center.
Population of Kropotkin for 2018 and 2019. Number of residents of Kropotkin
The city's population figures were taken from the Federal State Statistics Service. The official website of the Rosstat service is www.gks.ru. The data were also taken from the unified interdepartmental information and statistical system, the official website of EMISS www.fedstat.ru. The website has published data on the number of residents of Kropotkin. The table shows the distribution of the number of Kropotkin residents by year, the graph below shows the demographic trend in different years.
The graph of the change in the population of Kropotkin:
In 2015, about 79.8 thousand people live in Kropotkin.
In 1894, 8,147 people lived here, and in 1901 - almost 20,000.
Most of all among the Kropotkino residents are Russians - 91.1% and Armenians - 4.1%.
Ethno-buried: Kropotkin, Kropotkin, Kropotkin, Kropotkin.
Kropotkin photo of the city. Photo of Kropotkin
Information about the city of Kropotkin in Wikipedia.
I want to tell you about the wonderful city of Kropotkin.
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The city of Kropotkin is located in the Krasnodar Territory. It is the administrative center of the Caucasian region. The population of the city is over 80,000 people.
In order not to tire the reader with searches in Google, I made a small selection of information from the site of the city of Kropotkin.
Kropotkin is a picturesque southern city located in the east of the Krasnodar Territory. On its territory there are 16 burial mounds of the Bronze Age and the Middle Ages, monuments of the war years, the Holy Intercession Cathedral, the Museum of History and Local Lore, parks and alleys. The city has two stadiums, a swimming pool with 50-meter lanes, and a cinema.
The history of the founding of the city of Kropotkin is closely connected with the activities of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov in the Kuban. The beginning of settlement on the site of the present city dates back to 1778, when, among other fortifications, the Romanovsky post was built. Suvorov A.V. established a Cossack guard post at the ford to protect the crossing of the Kuban River, reinforcing it with a small redoubt. Since 1783, post No. 1 Romanovsky began to be designated as a redoubt on military maps. At first, the inscription read: "Redoubt at the Dry Oak in the Romanovskaya ferry", then the name became more laconic "Redoubt at the Dry Oak".
In 1875, the Rostov-Vladikavkaz railway (now the North Caucasian railway), under construction, went into operation, running through the former Romanovsky post, the village of Nevinnomysskaya, the Kuban river valleys. Kuma, Terek. According to the first census of 1894, there were 959 households in the Romanovsky farm and 8147 people lived. In 1921, the chairman of the farm executive committee, Glukhikh, made a proposal to the Kuban-Black Sea regional executive committee to rename the Romanovsky farm to the city of Kropotkin, in honor of the scientist, geologist and geographer, theorist of anarchism P.A.Kropotkin. The Romanovsky farm on 04/14/1921 (03/14/1921 met such an option) was transformed into the city of Kropotkin.
We went to this glorious city for a special reason (look at the top of the billboard). By the way, pay attention to the masterly installation of the banner. The external block of the split-system harmoniously blended into the word "November", thereby setting a new trend for the symbiosis of advertising posters with facade elements.
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The exhibition was held in the Palace of Culture of Railway Workers. A small room was allocated for the exhibition, in which there was not enough space for participants and visitors. It was cramped and stuffy. I am a small fan of cat exhibitions, so after carrying things out of the car and setting up a tent, I went for a walk around the city. It was very cloudy.
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The central street of the city is Krasnaya street.
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I remember that when I first saw such a tree as a child, I thought it was a bird's nest.
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This watch made me very excited. If they also showed the time exactly, the price would not have been there.
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The central street pleasantly surprised us with the abundance of flower beds.
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In addition to flower beds and flower beds, Kropotkin amazes with the number of benches.
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The building of the prosecutor's office. There are not many such historical buildings. The eye rejoices when you look. I do not like modern boring new buildings made of glass and concrete.
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The building of the Cossack army.
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Police. A very beautiful building, but I would not like to be there on business.
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The main attraction of Kropotkin is the historical building of the railway station. Station Kavkazskaya is a junction railway station that belongs to the Krasnodar branch of the North Caucasian Railway and is located in the city of Kropotkin. The station was built in 1874 and the first train was dispatched at the same time. And the station building was erected in 1903 (I met information about 1902).
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Previously, the building looked like this (1875). I found the photo on the Russian Railways website.
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Somewhere I found information that during the Great Patriotic War the station was damaged and later restored. I can't find it now. Glory to the Great Google-Yandex!
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Looks better from a distance. All windows must be the same. A plastic-metal door on a historic building is not cool!
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The fountain in the forecourt was turned off, so he did not take it off. I am sure that in working condition - it is incomparable. But he rented a cinema.
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Kropotkin is a green city!
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The sign of the city museum is made in a 3D version with an aging effect. Unfortunately, the museum was closed and I was not able to visit it.
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Administration building. Here I turned from Krasnaya Street towards the market.
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Do you have flying night lanterns in town?
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I liked the architecture of the city. Nice, modest and tasteful, but only on the main street.
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Holy Protection Cathedral. Located opposite the gates of the central market. Why this angle? The parking lot and passing Gazelles left no other choice. Electrical wires also do not improve composition. There are better photos of the cathedral on the web.
Here's what we managed to find on the city forum. In 1894, a missionary monastery was established in the Romanovsky farm. The first temple of the monks was a temple in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The Holy Intercession Cathedral was built later, in 1912. The prayer Temple in honor of the Kazan Icon was destroyed at the end of the 30s of the last century.
The missionary monastery in the Romanovsky farm was closed in 1922, and the Holy Intercession Cathedral and the Kazan Church remained. From 1929 to 1943 there were no services in the Cathedral. Since 1976, there has been a major restoration. The domes were covered with copper, wall paintings were made inside, the Iconostasis was restored and gilded. The restoration of ancient icons continues to this day.
After 1991, 12 cells were returned. In 1999, a bell tower was built, the Kazan Church was restored (in a different form), where the sacrament of Baptism is performed.
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Central market. I wanted to buy a souvenir as a keepsake. So I didn't find anything. Kropotkin is not a tourist city. People looked at the person with the camera unhealthily. I even heard such a dialogue between women: "I found what to shoot. We have nothing to shoot here."
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Home is like home. I was hooked by its color.
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They love and read books here.
Outside the Krasnodar Territory, few residents of Russia will be able to answer the question of where the city of Kropotkin is located, if you do not mention the name of the Kavkazskaya railway station, which gave life to the city.
We are starting an amazing journey into the history of our city. The word history itself comes from the Greek word - a story about the past, about the learned.
Each person has a small homeland, a place where he was born and raised. For residents of the city of Kropotkin, this is a corner on the map, which occupies a very small area. Those who were born in this city and grew up in it, or lived at least two or three weeks in spring or summer, will always be drawn, beckon to this special city.
History and geographical location of the city of Kropotkin.
Kropotkin is one of the greenest and most comfortable cities in the Kuban. In terms of the area of green spaces, it occupies an honorable second place after Anapa. Kropotkin freely spread out among the steppes of the Kuban-Priazovskaya lowland and settled on the right bank of the Kuban River. The city belongs to the Caucasian region of the Krasnodar Territory. Kropotkin is a quiet, beautiful city with a rich and distinctive history and many archaeological sites.
The city of Kropotkin is located at 40 degrees 29 minutes east longitude and 45 degrees 22 minutes north latitude, at an altitude of 120-135 meters above sea level, 140 km east of the city of Krasnodar. The territory of the city on 01.01.1997 was 85.2 square meters. km. Over the past 20 years, it has grown by 1.4 sq. km, which indicates the compactness of the city. In terms of population density - 967.1 people / sq. km - it is second only to Tuapse and Tikhoretsk. The compactness of the territory is one of the advantages of Kropotkin. The city is located at the intersection of important railways and highways, providing it with important and economic ties, and its position in the center of a densely populated group of rural areas contributed to the formation of a small agglomeration of large villages around it (Kavkazskaya, Novoukrainskaya, Krasnoselskaya, Rogovichesky farm, Milovanovo village) and the town of Galkevichi ... The nearest airport (transport) is in Armavir. The city is located on the major federal highway "Caucasus". The lines Rostov-Vladikavkaz, Rostov-Mineralnye Vody, Kavkazskaya-Stavropol-Elista, Krasnodar-Kavkazskaya-Adler pass through Kropotkin. The city is well greened. 70% of residential and industrial buildings in the city are one-story. 5-9 storey buildings are located in the central part of residential areas and on the outskirts. The city has a reserve of over 200 hectares for housing construction. It is planned to develop low-rise buildings in its northern part due to the development of new lands. Construction in the center and southern part will continue to be carried out at the expense of old and emergency buildings.
Around Kropotkin, along the banks of the steppe rivers Chelbas and Beysug, there are extensive hunting grounds. During the hunting season, hunting for steppe game is allowed here: hare and fox. You can fish all year round in all bodies of water.
The fate of the city of Kropotkin is unusual for other settlements of the Kuban. The history of its foundation is inextricably linked with the history of the Cossack cordon line and the activities of the great Russian commander A.V. Suvorov to strengthen it.
Now it has been documented that the foundation of the city of Kropotkin dates back to 1778. That year, the commander of the Caucasian corps, Lieutenant-General A.V., Suvorov, built a Caucasian fortress on the right bank of the Kuban, against the Romanovsky ford across the Kuban River (in the area of the present Kropotkin cannery) he established a Cossack guard post, reinforcing it with a small redoubt. The post received the name "Romanovsky", after the name of the ford. The fortress and the outpost became part of the Kuban cordon line and reliably defended the southern border of the Russian state from the raids of the mountaineers. In the history of the city of Kropotkin, it is noteworthy that on the basis of a guard post, as a result of long-term development, the city of Kropotkin, well-known in the North Caucasus, grew up. After the consolidation of the post of Romanovsky by decree of Nicholas I, life in his place was not interrupted for a single day. Around the post, retired soldiers who had already settled for a long time remained in their habitable places, they were joined by fugitive peasants from the central regions of Russia and the Don. There was a post office (1828). A wooden church was built between the Caucasian fortress and Vorstadt in 1829, where those who lived in the fortress went to pray: the soldiers and Cossacks who served at the Romanovsky post, the Vorstadt. After the abolition of the fortress, the church was sold a couple of years later. Developed and taken out. The settlement became known as the Romanovsky farm. The retired soldiers did not seek to leave the fertile Kuban region, they transported families here. The government encouraged those who settled near fortresses, redoubts and other fortifications, gave them loans and exempted them from taxes.
The construction of the railway and the Kavkazskaya railway station gave a powerful impetus to the rapid growth of trade and industrial enterprises, the population, and the conversion of the characteristic features of the city by the farm.
On February 4, 1921, the Romanovsky farm was renamed into the city of Kropotkin, in honor of the outstanding natural scientist and revolutionary anarchist Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin. And on December 6, 1943, it became a city of regional subordination.
Our city bears his name -
Kropotkin Pyotr Alekseevich
(1842 – 1921).
He was a famous Russian revolutionary, one of the theorists of anarchism, sociologist, geographer and geologist.
Born into the family of a general from an ancient princely family, he was the king's chamber-page.
After graduating from the Corps of Pages, he served in the Amur Cossack army, then as an official on special assignments under the governor-general of Eastern Siberia.
For five years (excluding only a short period of business trip to St. Petersburg in 1864) P.A.Kropotkin tirelessly conducts comprehensive geographical research of this vast, practically unknown to science, sparsely populated territory. Experiencing incredible difficulties, he explores the basin of the Oka River (Eastern Sayan), the Patomskoe Upland. Floats along the Songhua River within Manchuria, along the Amur, studying the life, economy, culture and socio-economic situation of peasants - voluntary migrants to the region, Cossack settlements of the Trans-Baikal Cossack army and small peoples of Eastern Siberia, keenly noticing the most significant features of nature and life for science , economy, culture, way of life.
In 1863 - 1864. P.A.Kropotkin explores a vast area of southern Transbaikalia and Northern Manchuria. In June 1864, together with the botanist and meteorologist Konrad, astronomer Usoltsev, topographers Vasiliev and Andreev, under the guise of merchants, they examined the valley of the river. Sungari, carry out an eye survey, give a description of the banks of the channel, draw up a map from the mouth to the city of Jirin.
In 1866, P.A.Kropotkin made his most significant journey - from the mouth of the RyuVitim to Chita, discovered the Vitim and Patomskoye plateaus, several mountain ranges, and collected a large geographical and geological material.
After retirement, he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of St. Petersburg University and served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The researcher's experience, gained in Siberia, he continued after retirement. In 1871 he explored glacial landforms in Finland and Sweden. Based on the research materials, the work "Research on the Ice Age" was published, which was widely recognized and highly appreciated by contemporaries.
PA Kropotkin spent over 40 years in exile, continuing his revolutionary activities, and in 1917 he returned to Russia.
The memory of P.A.Kropotkin is honored in our country. A city in the Krasnodar Territory, one of the mountain ranges and an urban-type settlement in the Irkutsk Region, a street, a square, an embankment, a metro station in Moscow are named after him. Memorial plaques were installed in Moscow, on the house where he was born, and in the city of Dmitrov, on the house where he died.
Our proud bears the name of Peter Alekseevich Kropotkin since 1921. But much earlier, since 1905, the farm’s collection took a decision to separate the Romanovsky farm from the Kavkazskaya station, then in 1906 to transform the farm into a city with a simplified urban management, later, in 1908, they returned to this issue, and under Soviet rule - in 1920. So the delay on the separation of the Romanovsky farm into an independent administrative unit lasted. And only on March 14, 1921, the Azov-Black Sea Regional Executive Committee adopted a Resolution on the transformation of the Romanovsky farm into a city, naming it in honor of Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin, who had died by that time.
Kropotkin is industrial.
Kropotkin is a transport and industrial center located on convenient routes. The city's industry is represented by 21 large basic enterprises and almost twice as many small and new formations specializing mainly in the production of consumer goods for the population.
The main industry is food. It accounts for 3/4 of industrial production and 1/3 of industrial personnel. The rest of the share falls on mechanical engineering and metalworking. The third is the chemical industry.
Kropotkin Experimental Machine-Building Plant (KrEMZ).
KrEMZ is one of the few industrial enterprises in the city that has endured the shocks of "perestroika and democratization". Now the plant works rhythmically and, along with other enterprises, provides the city budget with a sufficient amount of funds, allowing its administration to eliminate huge gaps in the social sphere, formed due to social natural disasters.
Construction of KrEMZ began in July 1971. The plant was intended for the manufacture of special machines for the needs of the oil and gas industry.
The high professionalism of the plant's technical service made it possible to create and master the production of a large number of different types of machines.
Machine-building plant "Raduga"
No less indicative in this respect is the history of the machine-building plant "Raduga", where more than 4 thousand citizens worked before the perestroika processes.
The plant was built for the XXVI Congress of the CPSU under the license of an American company. Increasing the rate of output annually.
Plant JSC "Elevatormelmash"
The plant of JSC "Elevatormelmash" is also not unimportant for the city.
Before the start of the Great Patriotic War, the plant manufactured transmission equipment. Mechanisms and parts for technological equipment.
Since 1954, the plant began to manufacture wagon loaders, mobile 10-meter screw conveyors for loading wagons of a new design.
In 1958, centrifugal casting, pneumatic painting of products were introduced, a section with electric steam and forklift trucks was mechanized. In recent years, a welding and assembly shop and a transport section have been built and reconstructed. At the plant, the management constantly focuses on caring for the living conditions of workers and employees, the organization of their rest. The factory club was built.
Currently, the plant is gradually recovering from the economic crisis. The number of employees and production volumes are growing.
Kropotkinsky chemical plant
Stands in last place.
The construction of the plant began in 1950 on the site of a former furniture factory.
His birthday is March 13, 1965. On this day, the hydrolysis plant, which had existed in the city for about 5 years, was renamed into the Kropotkin Chemical Plant.
Kropotkinsky Chemical Plant is the only enterprise in Russia where such types of products as tetrahydrofuran, furan, polyfurite were produced.
Kropotkin Bakery
The Kropotkinsky bakery began named after S. M. Kirov began with a private oil mill on the territory of the present bakery.
Construction began in December 1937, and the plant began operations on February 28, 1935. The bakery supplies its products not only to the city, but also to the surrounding areas. In 1958-1960, a rusk shop was built and put into operation for the manufacture of army rusks.
Currently, the bakery consists of a bakery shop, a confectionery shop, a bakery shop, and ancillary services.
The productivity of the enterprise is 60 tons of bread per day. The bakery has mastered about 50 types of bakery products and the production of pasta.
Kropotkin Dairy Plant
The Kropotkinsky Dairy Plant also deserves a lot of attention. Today, when many processing enterprises are reducing production, Kropotkinskiy Dairy Plant OJSC is increasing the volume of milk processing and the range of products it produces.
The plant is rightfully one of the largest stable, dynamically developing dairy plants in the Kuban.
In Kropotkin, the oil extraction plant is one of the stable and reliable sources of replenishment of the city budget.
The plant is improving its technical and economic indicators from month to month, building new premises. The plant works steadily and rhythmically.
Convoy 1493
Convoy 1493 is of no small importance. It is the main carrier of passengers in the city of Kropotkin and the Caucasian region, and provides benefits for free travel for citizens.
For high performance in fulfilling the plan for the transportation of FSUE passengers. The 1493 convoy was awarded the title of "Exemplary Column".
Communication of generations of motorists who are at the origins of passenger development in the city with those who work in a team today allows them to sacredly preserve their working honor and achieve high results.
Locomotive Depot
In the second half of the 19th century, oil was discovered in the Kuban and the construction of a railroad that connected Central Russia with the Caucasus began. On June 18, 1874, the first train passed from the Kavkazskaya station to the Mirskaya station. This date is considered to be the day when the locomotive depot was put into operation and the day when the station was founded.
When it is warm in your house, the water from the tap flows only when you open it, the light does not go out - you simply forget about those who provide you with this comfort. About people carrying a difficult watch, in heat and cold, on holidays and weekends. Kropotkin residents have no particular reason to take offense at one of the main city services - "Kropotkin Warmth". Kropotkin Heat consistently ranks 5th in terms of the quality of service to the population in the Krasnodar Territory.
Monuments of the city of Kropotkin
We walk around our hometown, and do not realize that a few years ago there was nothing here except forests and that the city was called the Romanovsky farm.
Kropotkin is rich in its memorial and historical monuments. The city has a monument to an important world proletariat - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The people loved Vladimir Ilyich very much, so the news of his death swept the whole of Russia with a wave of grief. She came to our city. In 1947, a monument to the leader was erected at the locomotive depot of the Kavkazskaya station, and in 1949 a monument to Lenin was erected on the territory of the Kropotkin oil extraction plant. There is one more monument in our city, reminiscent of the turbulent times of the 1920s. This is a monument to the "All-Union Headman" - the Chairman of the All-Russian Executive Committee, Mikhail Ivanovich Kolesnik. This man was an outstanding leader of the Communist Party and the Soviet state, a loyal teacher and companion of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. He was devoted to Russia, was a living reflection of the history of the era, was a member of the Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class. In memory of him, a bronze sculpture was erected on the territory of the platform of the railway station of the Kavkazskaya station.
Flip through the history of Russia.
Read it over the year, year in a row
About courage, about courage and strength
Its pages tell the world.
In Kropotkin there are many monuments and mass graves of Soviet soldiers and officers, partisans and civilians of the city who died for the liberation of our Motherland from the Nazi invaders. The residents of Kropotkin will never forget the defenders of the city. In memory of the dead cadets and officers of the Uryupinsky military infantry school, a monument was created on the banks of the Kuban River, which reminds us of the events of distant August 1942. At the old city cemetery, a memorial was erected in honor of the perished partisans; they were buried here.
There is no house or hut in Russia,
Where would not have looked at you from the wall
Young-eyed soldiers
An inspiring feat of war.
Here in the old cemetery, next to the graves of the partisans, there is also the grave of 36 pilots who died in the sky of the Kuban during the Great Patriotic War, and were buried in 1941-1943.
In 1975, the Memorial Complex and Park named after the 30th anniversary of the Victory were established. Now for many years on May 9, on Victory Day, war veterans and residents of the city go to the monuments and graves of the fallen heroes, to honor their memory with the laying of flowers.
How many died
In deadly battles,
How many took them
War is irrevocable.
Quiet them to the headboard
Kneels down
At this hour all of Russia,
Our whole country!
There is another memorial, which is located in the city of Kropotkin on Komsomolskaya Street, house number 253. There is still a neat house behind a low fence - two windows along the facade, and in the courtyard, among flowers, there is an obelisk on which nine names of the victims are carved ...
In this house lived: a Russian woman, Baba Valya, as she was called.
On January 29, 1943, a group of our soldiers stopped in the courtyard of Valentina Vasilyevna Zyryanova, our soldiers met at the field kitchen, gathered, it was, to clean the machine guns, so that in a couple of days the Germans would drive on. And then planes appeared over the city, and one plane dropped a bomb directly into the courtyard of Baba Vali. Nine people died that night, and now there is a mass grave of the Guards Rifle Brigade on this site.
1999 is marked for us with a solemn date - the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. The poet's entire life was filled with free and involuntary travel, the significance of which for creativity is extremely great. Alexander Sergeevich drove through our Kuban places more than once.
Alexander Sergeevich's Caucasian impressions often served as themes for the creation of poetry.
In August 1820, Pushkin and Raevsky set off along the Stavropol Shlyakh through the Caucasian, Ust-Labinsk, Ekaterinodar, Taman to the Crimea. From here he wrote in a letter to his brother: "I saw the banks of the Kuban and the watch villages - I admired our Cossacks."
In 1999, on June 6, on the day of the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth, a grand opening took place in the city of Kropotkin. , A marble monument to the poet was erected in the park of the Palace of Culture and the alley to the monument bears the name of A.S. Pushkin.
I would like to finish the story about the monuments of the city of Kropotkin with the words of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin himself.
I swear on my honor
For nothing in the world
I would not like to change
Fatherland, or have
Another story
Besides the history of our
Traditions and customs of the city of Kropotkin
Our city is rich in its traditions and customs. The first half of the 20th century was the time when the traditions of Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus were fused on the Kuban land, like in a forge, and a new culture appeared - the Kuban. In the Romanovsky farm, streams of immigrants from Great Russia and Little Russia merged, families came here not only from the Don, but also from Chernomoria, Stavropol, and Terek. All of them carried their own traditions, customs, habits, national characteristics. Military service and discipline quickly eliminated differences.
All this and local conditions inevitably influenced the change in settlements and dwellings, utensils and household items, food and clothing. Due to the poverty of the Kuban forest, the farmers built houses, mostly not wooden, but turluchny ones (a wooden frame was laid with clay and straw and only coated with clay). Wooden houses could be erected only by wealthy Cossacks or nonresidents. From the line of the street, houses were fenced off with hedges - wattle fences.
Russians and Ukrainians brought with them to the Romanovsky farm the traditions of household utensils, clothes and shoes. At the end of the 19th century, this difference gradually faded. At the same time, food and utensils converge with the common South Russian, Don and Ukrainian traditions. More and more, instead of tourist houses, straw, wooden houses are spreading, and the first brick houses appear under the iron roof of wealthy Cossacks. The high foundations in the houses allow for wooden floors, and reed and high iron roofs replace thatched ones. Handicraft and factory furniture appears in houses: a sideboard, wardrobes, dressers, beds, stools, chairs, various rugs, bedding. There was no longer any brotherhood among the Cossacks, nevertheless, the Cossack estate was supported by all forces, to a large extent, and through clothes, the Cossacks already daily wore old uniforms - wide trousers, beshmet, and others, even for field work. And they celebrated all the holidays in a ceremonial Circassian coat in full uniform with the available awards. So dressed they came to the farm meeting of electives. Similar clothes were to be worn by local nonresidents. The utensils in the farmsteads were both local (pottery pots, mugs, wooden buckets, barrels, plates, etc.), and imported handicraft and factory (metal, earthenware, glass of various types), and the latter were bought by wealthy Cossacks and nonresidents. Its own Kuban cuisine has stabilized in terms of first courses (borsch, noodles) and second courses (potatoes, porridge with pork and poultry), drinks (uzvar, tea, sour milk), pickles and seasonings. The colloquial speech of the farmers is based on the Russian language, which is greatly enriched by the speech of the Don Cossacks and the newly arrived Ukrainians.
By the beginning of the 20th century, along with the Cossack way of life, a working (urban) way of life was formed.
Our townspeople know how not only to work, but also to have a rest. But there is one holiday, especially beloved by the Kropotkin people - family day.
In 1974, on the initiative of Valentina Efimovna Chigareva, with the support of the secretary of the city party committee for ideology, a citywide holiday "Family Day" was born in our city and for the first time was held. The carnival procession of amateur groups of enterprises, professional artists, anniversaries of gold and silver weddings, young couples who registered their marriage that day, as well as thousands of citizens marching to the chords of a brass band, ended at the Yunost stadium. The townspeople were delighted. The holiday was held on "Hurray!" The regional party leadership did not immediately perceive the holiday: "there are no revolutionary ideas." However, after such a holiday was held again in 1975. I saw expediency in it - everyone liked it. His idea quickly spread throughout the cities of our, then immense, Motherland.
1975 is considered the year of birth of this holiday, which later became "City Day". The main thing in the history of this holiday is that its homeland is our city of Kropotkin!
More than 30 years have passed since the first celebration of the City Day, but it has not died out, like hundreds of others, invented by ideologists in party offices and announced: "From this day on, this will be a tradition." Life has confirmed that people need the "City Festival", it has become desirable and loved. Its content was enriched and supplemented by folk notions. Of course, the Department of Culture and Art of the city plays the fiddle in this matter. The department starts working out a holiday plan long before and prepares its performers. The holiday takes place more than one day. In my opinion, only N.V. Gogol could describe it.
The carnival procession - a must see - is indescribably beautiful.
And concerts at the Palace of Culture, contests, games, attractions! Everything ends with colorful fireworks! You must definitely visit the holiday to see all its beauty.
The workers of the radio studio also work here, the journalists write something down in their notebooks, the lighting of the television studio is blinded. Returning home, turning on the TV, the kids look for themselves in the footage: “Mom! Look, I'm over there! "
From the very first steps along the Kropotkin land, it is clear that this is a city that is impossible to part with, it is impossible not to fall in love. Some kind of special serenity reigns in all appearance: the streets are buried in white foam of flowering cherries and sweet cherries, the roofs of houses are covered with branches of apple trees, pears, apricots, covered with pink buds of inflorescences. Swarms of bees and wasps are buzzing, collecting nectar. No hustle and bustle, there is a calm, steady, measured rhythm of life in everything.
We love our city very much and want it to continue to grow and blossom. And I would like to end my journey around the city of Kropotkin with a poem by Alexei Khlystov, a graduate of our school.
The city that I dream about in my dreams
The lilac branch blooms in the spring.
Blooming city, beloved Kropotkin,
Since childhood, you are dear to me.
It's like you're bathing in the sunshine
You are all drowned in the azure of the gardens.
The most beautiful on this planet
The most beautiful of all cities.
How I love your quiet streets
In the distance that beckons us with rows of alleys.
Only the sky, transparent, clear
Maybe taller than your poplars.
All nothing that you smoke from factories
And it doesn't matter what is wrong in the country.
Rus will survive, and Kropotkin will wake up
The city that I dream about in my dreams.
Kropotkin is a small town in the Krasnodar Territory, located on the banks of the Kuban River, 145 kilometers from the regional center. The area of the settlement is 98.7 square kilometers.
General data and historical facts
At the end of the 18th century, on the site of the modern city, there was a security post No. 1 at Gorely Oak.
In 1879, the Romanovsky farm was founded as part of the Kavkazskaya stanitsa. In the second half of the 19th century, the Kavkazskaya station of the Vladikavkaz railway was built in the farm.
In 1874, the first train departed from the Kavkazskaya station. In 1894, according to the census, there were about 1000 households in the village and more than 8 thousand people.
In 1901, another railway "Yekaterinodar - Stavropol" was laid through Romanovsky.
In 1905, there were more than 1600 households in the farm and almost 20 thousand people lived. At the same time, a new railway station, a library, two gymnasiums, a railway club, a power station, a railway school and a water supply system were opened. Before the revolution, 38 enterprises, a first-class station, a fire station and an elevator operated in Romanovskoye.
At the beginning of 1921, the settlement was transformed into a city named Kropotkin. In 1924 the city became the administrative center of the newly formed Kropotkinsky district.
In 1934 the city was included in the Azov-Black Sea region.
From August 1942 to January 1943, Kropotkin was under the occupation of the German fascist invaders.
At the end of 1943, the settlement received the status of a city of regional subordination.
In 1950, on the site of the former furniture enterprise, a hydrolysis plant was founded, which in 1965 was named the Kropotkin Chemical Plant.
In 1971, construction began on the Kropotkin Experimental Machine-Building Plant, which produced equipment for the oil and gas industry.
In the summer of 2008, the city was included in the Kavkazskiy district MO with the status of the Kropotkinsky urban settlement.
The telephone code of Kropotkin is 86138. The postal code is 352177.
Climate and weather
Kropotkin has a mild continental climate. Winters are mild and short-lived. The average temperature in January is +0.5 degrees.
Summer is long and hot. The average temperature in July is +24.3 degrees. Average annual precipitation is 740 mm.
The total population of Kropotkin for 2018-2019
Population data were obtained from the State Statistics Service. Graph of changes in the number of citizens over the past 10 years.
The total number of residents for 2018 is 78.6 thousand people.
The data in the graph shows a slight drop in the population from 80,000 in 2007 to 78,631 in 2018.
As of January 2018, in terms of the number of inhabitants, Kropotkin ranked 210th out of 1113 cities in the Russian Federation.
sights
1.Church of the Life-Giving Trinity- the institution was founded in May 1970. The fund of the museum contains various coins, photographs, documents, books, household items and weapons of the Cossacks.
2.Memorial complex of the Great Patriotic War- the monument was installed in 1975. The memorial is made in the form of an eternal flame and a memorial plate with the names of the inhabitants of the city.
3.Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin- the Orthodox church was built in 1913. During wartime it was used as a bomb shelter.
Transport
In Kropotkin there is the Kavkazskaya railway station, which connects the city with the Gulkevichs, Novokubansk, Tikhoretsk, Ust-Labinsk, Armavir, Krasnodar, and Novoaleksandrovsk.
Intra-city transport is represented by 16 bus routes and fixed-route taxis.
From the bus station of the city there are regular buses to Anapa, Armavir, Astrakhan, Vladikavkaz,
