About Krasnodar

Krasnodar (formerly (until 1920) Ekaterinodar) is a city and administrative centre of Krasnodar kray (region), southwestern Russia, lying along the Kuban River. Founded about 1793 as a Cossack guardpost on the Kuban frontier, it developed as a military town. In 1867, after the Caucasian wars, it became a city and centre of the fertile Kuban region, and its prosperity increased following the arrival of the railways in the 1890s. After 1918 it was the capital of the Kuban-Black Sea Soviet Republic and was renamed Krasnodar in 1920.