Taman (russian: Тамань) is a

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(a ''

stanitsa A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Ar ...

'') in

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, located on the coast of the Taman Bay. It is the administrative center of the Taman rural settlement. Its population was recorded at 9,417 people (2020), and

History

Taman occupies the site of the ancient cities of

Hermonassa Tmutarakan ( rus, Тмутарака́нь, p=tmʊtərɐˈkanʲ, ; uk, Тмуторокань, Tmutorokan) was a medieval Kievan Rus' principality and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Se ...

and

Tmutarakan Tmutarakan ( rus, Тмутарака́нь, p=tmʊtərɐˈkanʲ, ; uk, Тмуторокань, Tmutorokan) was a medieval Kievan Rus' principality and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the ...

. From the end of the 15th century until 1783, this was a site of a Turkish fortress. Before the annexation it was a

sanjak Sanjaks (liwāʾ) (plural form: alwiyāʾ) * Armenian: նահանգ (''nahang''; meaning "province") * Bulgarian: окръг (''okrǔg''; meaning "county", "province", or "region") * el, Διοίκησις (''dioikēsis'', meaning "province" ...

subordinate to the

eyalet Eyalets ( Ottoman Turkish: ایالت, , English: State), also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were a primary administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. From 1453 to the beginning of the nineteenth century the Ottoman local government ...

of Kaffa. The modern ''

'' was founded by the

Zaporozhian Cossacks The Zaporozhian Cossacks, Zaporozhian Cossack Army, Zaporozhian Host, (, or uk, Військо Запорізьке, translit=Viisko Zaporizke, translit-std=ungegn, label=none) or simply Zaporozhians ( uk, Запорожці, translit=Zaporoz ...

under Anton Golovaty on August 25, 1792 as the latter's residence and the first garrison of the

Black Sea Cossack Host Black Sea Cossack Host (russian: Черномо́рское каза́чье во́йско; uk, Чорномо́рське коза́цьке ві́йсько ), also known as Chernomoriya (russian: Черномо́рия), was a Cossack host ...

. Until 1849, Taman was officially considered to be a town, even though it had no local government of its own and was governed from the nearby ''stanitsa'' of Akhtanizovskaya. In 1849, Taman was re-organized as a ''stanitsa'' and established local government of its own. Taman was under German occupation from September 1942 until they were completely pushed out of the Taman Peninsula in October 1943.

Port of Taman

In August 2008, then-

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signed a government resolution authorizing the development of a major international cargo port several kilometers south of Taman. Currently, a fertilizer terminal is under construction there to link with the ammonia pipeline to Odessa owned by TogliattiAzot. In August 2013 Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov said that the

Port of Taman A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Ham ...

would open in 2019 to handle dry cargoes, such as grain and coal. He also added that federal spending would amount to $2.3 billion, while private investors were expected to contribute the remaining 152 billion rubles. As of 2012, the first tonne of cargo was planned to be sent from the port in September 2016.В Тамани появится самый большой в России сухогрузный порт
(''tr. "The largest dry cargo port in Russia will appear in Taman "'') — Югополис, 10 February 2012.

Sights

Principal sights of Taman include: *The ruins of Hermonassa and Tmutarakan. *A Turkish condensate pump dating from the 15th century. *An archeological museum imitating the Roman

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. *The memorial house of

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...

. The fourth part of his novel '' A Hero of Our Time'' is set in Taman. *A small wine-making museum. *A museum devoted to the history of

Kuban Cossack Kuban Cossacks (russian: кубанские казаки, ''kubanskiye kаzaki''; uk, кубанські козаки, ''kubanski kozaky''), or Kubanians (russian: кубанцы, ; uk, кубанці, ), are Cossacks who live in the Kuban re ...

dom. *An Orthodox church built by the first Cossack settlers in 1793. This is the oldest

Russian Orthodox Russian Orthodoxy (russian: Русское православие) is the body of several churches within the larger communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, whose liturgy is or was traditionally conducted in Church Slavonic language. Most ...

church in the

Kuban Kuban ( Russian and Ukrainian: Кубань; ady, Пшызэ) is a historical and geographical region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, the Volga Delta and the Caucasus, and separated ...

region. * Amandus Adamson's monument to the first Cossack settlers of the region (1911).

References

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