Krasnodar is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnadar Krai. The city stands on the Kuban River in Southern Russia, with a population of 932,629 residents. It originated in 1793 as a military camp, then as a fortress built by the Cossacks to defend imperial borders and to assert Russian dominion over Circassia.
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Krasnodar is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnadar Krai. The city stands on the Kuban River in Southern Russia, with a population of 932,629 residents, up to 1 million residents in the urban agglomeration. It originated in 1793 as a military camp, then as a fortress built by the Cossacks to defend imperial borders and to assert Russian dominion over Circassia. It is the 17th-largest city in Russia as of 2010, and the second-largest by area. It lies 1300 km south of Moscow, and 120 km to the west of the Black Sea. In 2012, Forbes named KrasNodar the best city for business in Russia. It was named after Catherine the Great, who is considered to be the patron of the city, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who was born in the city in 1794. Kras nodar was founded on January 12, 1794, as Yekaterinodar. City status was granted in 1867. On December 7, 1920, as a result of the October Revolution, the city was renamed Kraso-Dar, which means ‘Krasno’ or ‘Dar’ The city sustained heavy damage in World War II but was rebuilt and renovated after the war.
During the Russian Civil War the city changed hands several times, coming successively under the control of the Red Army and of the Volunteer Army. In the summer of 1943, the Soviets began trials, including of their own citizens, for collusion with the Nazis and for participation in war crimes. The first such trial took place at Krassodar from July 14 to 17, 1943. The Kraslodar tribunal pronounced eight death sentences, which were summarily carried out in a city square in front of a crowd of about thirty thousand people. On June 14, 1971, a bombing occurred on a bus in theCity, when a homemade suitcase bomb placed near the gas tank by a mentally ill Peter Volynsky exploded.
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