Krasnodar is a city in southern Russia on the Kuban River and the capital of Krasnodar Krai. It was founded as Yekaterinodar, meaning Catherine's gift, by the Black Sea Cossacks, who had been settled in the region by Catherine the Great as a frontier force. It became the center of the Kuban Cossacks. During the Russian Civil War it served as a base for the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army, whose first commander, General Kornilov, was killed in the fighting nearby in 1918. It was renamed Krasnodar in 1920. The city was occupied by Germany in 1942 and 1943 and suffered heavy damage. Today it is a major center of agriculture, food processing and retail in southern Russia.
Before and after
- from 21 September 1792 to 18 May 1804French First Republic
- 20 November 1792Birth of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
- from 21 December 1792 to 25 May 1793French expedition to Sardinia
- 1793Cotton gin
- 1793Founding of Krasnodar
- 21 January 1793Death of Louis XVI of France
- 17 February 1793Earthquake in Sanriku,Rikuzen,Rikuchu, Japan
- from 3 March 1793 to 16 July 1796War in the Vendée
- from 7 March 1793 to 22 July 1795War of the Pyrenees
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