10 Facts About Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and administratively a part of the Southern Federal District.

Krasnodar Krai is formally and informally referred to as Kuban, a term denoting the historical region of Kuban situated between the Sea of Azov and the Kuban River which is mostly composed of the krai's territory.

Krasnodar Krai is home to significant infrastructure of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.

Krasnodar Krai is located in the southwestern part of the North Caucasus and borders with Rostov Oblast in the northeast, Stavropol Krai and Karachay-Cherkessia in the east, and with the Abkhazia region in the south.

Krasnodar Krai is split into two distinct parts by the Kuban River, which gave its name to this entire geographic region.

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Krasnodar Krai was founded on 13 September 1937, when Azov-Black Sea Krai of the Russian SFSR was split up in Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast.

On 30 January 1996 Krasnodar Krai signed a power-sharing agreement with the federal government, granting it autonomy.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin flew to the area to hold emergency talks with officials in Krymsk, while authorities in Perm Krasnodar Krai dispatched a rescue team to evacuate dozens of children from the region, who had been staying at summer camps on the Black Sea coast.

Krasnodar Krai is administratively divided into thirty-eight districts and fifteen cities of district equivalence.

Population of Krasnodar Krai is concentrated in the Kuban River drainage basin, which was traditionally Cossack land .