Taman () is a ''

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'' (village) in the

Temryuksky District Temryuksky District () 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 subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions, muni ...

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. It is on the Taman Peninsula and on the coast of

Taman Bay The Taman Bay (Russian language, Russian: Таманский залив) is a shallow bay or gulf on the east coast of the Strait of Kerch shaped on the southern side by the Tuzla Spit and to the north by the Chushka Spit. It dips into the Taman P ...

, an inlet off

Kerch Strait The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai in the east. The strait is to wide and up ...

. It is the administrative center of the Taman rural settlement, which also contains the much smaller village of Volna, on the southern side of the peninsula, where the

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is. The population of Taman ''stanitsa'' was recorded at 9,417 people (2020), and

History

Taman occupies the site of the ancient cities of

Hermonassa Tmutarakan (, ; ) was a medieval principality of Kievan Rus' and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries. Its site was the ancient Greek colo ...

and

Tmutarakan Tmutarakan (, ; ) was a medieval principality of Kievan Rus' and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries. Its site was the ancient Greek col ...

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

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subordinate to the

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of Kaffa. The modern ''

'' was founded by the

Zaporozhian Cossacks The Zaporozhian Cossacks (in Latin ''Cossacorum Zaporoviensis''), also known as the Zaporozhian Cossack Army or the Zaporozhian Host (), were Cossacks who lived beyond (that is, downstream from) the Dnieper Rapids. Along with Registered Cossa ...

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

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. 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

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. In August 2013

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said that the

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

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dating from the 15th century. *An archeological museum imitating the Roman

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. *The memorial house of

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...

. The fourth part of his novel ''

A Hero of Our Time ''A Hero of Our Time'' ( rus, Герой нашего времени, links=1, r=Gerój nášego vrémeni, p=ɡʲɪˈroj ˈnaʂɨvə ˈvrʲemʲɪnʲɪ) is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841. It ...

'' is set in Taman. *A small wine-making museum. *A museum devoted to the history of

Kuban Cossack Kuban Cossacks (; ), or Kubanians (, ''kubantsy''; , ''kubantsi''), are Cossacks who live in the Kuban region of Russia. Most of the Kuban Cossacks are descendants of different major groups of Cossacks who were re-settled to the western Norther ...

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

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church in the

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region. *

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

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Krasnodar Krai Taman Peninsula Temryuksky District Populated places established in 1792 Port cities and towns in Russia