Timashevsk: population and a bit of history

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

On the fertile land of the Kuban, on the right bank of a small river, among green fields and beautiful gardens, there is a small southern town. More than 200 years ago, a hut was built here, which became a city in the second half of the last century. In theory, the population of Timashevsk should hate coffee. Because the enterprises of the Nestle food concern often cover almost the entire city with the smell of freshly ground coffee.

Geographic location

Timashevsk is located in the Krasnodar Territory, on two banks of the Kirpili River, It is located at a distance of 70 km from the administrative center of the region. Nearby are the borders with the Stavropol Territory, the Rostov Region, Abkhazia and Karachay-Cherkessia. You can get to this southern town by train Rostov - Krasnodar. True, modern electric trains stop a little further from the city railway station, although the city is located at the intersectiontransport routes. You can return back by taxi or bus. The settlement is located at an equal distance from the Azov and Black Seas, all sea resorts are at a distance of 100-200 km.

General information

The city is located in a temperate climate zone, the most favorable for living. In winter, the temperature rarely drops below zero, with a comfortable temperature of 20-25 degrees from May to September.

More than half of the city's territory is occupied by an industrial zone, which is largely due to its favorable geographical position. Timashevsk is located on the way from the port of Novorossiysk to the central regions of Russia. The enterprises of many transnational corporations work here, and therefore the city has low unemployment. Therefore, the vacancies of the Timashevsk Employment Center are practically not in demand. The oldest buildings date back to the beginning of the 20th century, for example, the house of deacon Suprunov, Ataman Maly, the building of the parochial school.

History

In 1794, the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks moved to this southern region as a Timashevsky kuren (military unit), named after the leader Timosh Fedorovich. According to another version, perhaps more reliable, the new settlement was named after the geographical origin of the founders, people from the village of Timoshovka, Cherkasy region of Ukraine.

Initially, the kuren was located in a different place. But after the drawing of lots, carried out by order of the ataman Chepiga, Timashevsky kuren moved to the right bankKirpili river. In 1842, the kuren received the status of a village and could elect its chieftain. The first school was built in 1874 with only 1 teacher teaching 39 students.

During the Great Patriotic War, Timashevsk was captured for a short time by the Germans. In 1966 it received city status. Currently, 15 large food industry enterprises operate here. Among them are the international corporations Nestle, Wimm-bill-Dann and Tetrapack.

Population

When the Zaporozhye Cossacks came to the Kuban region, they built four kurens, Timashevsky was the smallest. The Cossacks called kuren a settlement of 100 houses. The initial population of Timashevsk was just 100 sabers, that is, they could put up a detachment of 100 Cossacks. When counting the inhabitants of the settlement at that time, only representatives of the Cossack class were taken into account. According to the laws of those times, people of other classes could live in a kuren for no more than six months. Only in 1861, non-residents were allowed to settle in Cossack settlements. Population growth began to take place not only due to natural growth, runaways and peasants from the poor provinces of central Russia also flocked here.

Especially noticeable influx of population to Timashevsk began after the abolition of serfdom. Former forced peasants were able to move to other regions of the country. In addition, the stanitsa communities received the right to provide non-residents with small plots of land for outbuildings. The tsarist government did this in order to quickly populate the richest southern lands. By 1885, according to the Collection of Information on the Caucasus (volume XVIII), there were already 303 courtyards and 393 houses in the village, the population of Timashevsk was 2423 residents. Of these, 2210 are indigenous people and 110 are non-residents who had a settled place, and 103 who did not have a settled place.

Population in Soviet times

In the pre-war period in 1939, 15,600 people lived in the village. Officially, the population of Timashevsk, Krasnodar Territory, was first recorded according to the results of the All-Union Population Census of 1959. Then 19049 people lived in the Cossack village of Timashevskaya. A year after receiving city status, 26,000 inhabitants lived here. The population of the city gradually grew, mainly due to natural growth and rural residents who came to work in numerous food enterprises. The collapse of the Soviet Union did not change these growth patterns until 2000.

Population today

In 2001-2008 there were multidirectional fluctuations in the number of inhabitants. The maximum population of 54,300 was in 2006. Since the economic crisis of 2008, the population of the city of Timashevsk has been slowly decreasing from year to year. This is primarily due to the departure of young people to large metropolitan areas, for which the city has very poor opportunities for leisure. The development of Timashevsk is one-sided industrial in nature, there are practically no jobs for people with humanitarian professions.

The national composition is quite homogeneous. Russians make up the majority - about 90% of the population, the second largest national group - Armenians - 3.1%, Ukrainians - about 2%.