Where is Armavir?If we are talking about the Russian city, then in the Krasnodar Territory. The city is located on the banks of the Kuban River, just in the place where the inflow of Urup falls into it. This settlement has 3 twin-cities: the eponymous city in Armenia, Feodosia in the Crimea and Gomel in Belarus. On the map of the Russian Federation it can be found by knowing the coordinates: 45 ° 00 '00 "sec. w. 41 ° 07'00 "in. e.
Hearing the name of the city, many are wondering whereis Armavir? It is easy to explain this. This situation arises because the locality with such a name is not only in Russia. Armavir is a small settlement in Armenia. It is located at the foot of the southern slope of the city of Aragats (Ararat valley).
Armavir (Russia), together with three rural districts (Starostanichny, Prirechensky, Zavetny) is part of the municipal formation, whose center it is.
There is a city in the eastern part of the region, 202 km from the capital of the Krasnodar Territory.
If you compare other cities in Russia, then Armavir can be called small. Its area is 280 square meters. km. And the population is almost 191 thousand people, the data on the number are relevant for 2016.
The history of the city begins in the first half of the XIXcentury. In 1839, the Major-General of the Kuban line allocated land at the mouth of the Urupa River for settlement by the Circassian Armenians. At the beginning of the century, a conflict situation on religious grounds began to develop between them. The Adygs living in the North-Western Caucasus oppressed the supporters of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Those, in turn, decided to leave their lands and move closer to the Orthodox.
Initially, in the territory where Armavir is located inPresent, there was a small aul, surrounded on all sides by a moat. Its population followed the mountain laws. Even the name of the city was given in honor of the old capital of Armenia.
Already by 1876 Armavir had received the status of a village. The line of the Vladikavkaz railway was built. In 1914, the town was given the status of a city.
Currently, most of the city's residents -Russian. In a percentage ratio, they occupy 86% of the total population. There are about 8% of Armenians left here. There are also representatives of other nationalities in the minority: Ukrainians, Byelorussians, Circassians, Tatars, Georgians and so on.
If you look at the map where Armavir is located,then you can find out what kind of climate is here. The city is located within the temperate zone. Remoteness from the seas and the ocean makes the climate in the region typical continental. The hottest months of the year are July and August. The average temperature is +24 ° С. In winter, the thermometer's column rarely falls below 0 ° C. The average annual rainfall is 600 mm, most of which falls between May and June.
At present the city of Armavir looks likewell-equipped. The infrastructure is highly developed. There are a lot of industrial enterprises here. The largest of them work in such industries as food, instrument making, machine building, non-ferrous metallurgy, chemical, etc.
From public transport in the citythere are buses and trolley buses. Also there are two railway stations: one operates in the Rostov direction, the second - in Tuapse. In Armavir there is even own airport, however recently it does not carry out passenger transportation.
The total number of streets in the city of Armavir is 241.The main ones are Lenin, Marshal Zhukov, Komsomolskaya. Considering the fact that they are quite busy traffic, in 2007 the technical center "Electron" installed several video cameras. Such equipment of streets became possible thanks to the program "Safe City".
Armavir is a friendly, clean and cultural city.Among its attractions, great attention is paid to monuments of architecture, art and military history. There are about 400 of them in the city. In Armavir there are 8 universities, 11 vocational schools, 27 schools, 34 kindergartens, 13 sports complexes, there is even a mathematical lyceum.
