Kanevskaya () is a

stanitsa A stanitsa or stanitza ( ; ), also spelled stanycia ( ) or stanica ( ), was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire. Etymology The Russian word is the diminutive of the word ...

and the administrative center of

Kanevskoy District Kanevskoy District (), known as Kanevsky District () before March 2009, is an administrative district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Krasnodar Krai, thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.Reference Information #34.01-707/13-03 As a ...

Krasnodar Krai Krasnodar Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the North Caucasus region in Southern Russia and is administratively a part of the Southern Federal District. Its administrative center is the t ...

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History

Kanevskaya was founded in 1794 among the first forty settlements of the Black Sea Cossacks in the

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

. The name was transferred from the kuren of the Zaporizhzhya Sich.

Population

Population: 44,755 (2002); 45,334 (2020).

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Krasnodar Krai Kanevskoy District Kuban oblast