There are not many women among the politicians of Kuban, but in terms of their fame they are in no way inferior to their male colleagues. According to analysts, the women's political Olympus of Kuban is undoubtedly headed by the vice-governor of the Krasnodar Territory Galina Zolina.
Galina Zolina – rigidity and exactingness
A teacher by training, she graduated from the Academy of Civil Service and the Faculty of Journalism of Kuban State University. She was deputy general director of the Vyselkovsky agricultural complex, then became a media adviser to Kuban Governor Alexander Tkachev. Since 2005 – Deputy Governor of the Krasnodar Territory for Social Issues.
“In addition to her official position, Galina Dmitrievna also has the unofficial status of a person close to Tkachev. Since they are fellow countrymen and worked together in Vyselki, Alexander Tkachev supported her entry into the political elite of the Krasnodar Territory. Therefore, without any doubt, she stands apart at the top of this rating,” says Gennady Podlesny, president of the Center for Applied Sociology and Political Science.
Kuban state employees note that Galina Zolina is demanding and tough. If an employee of a school or hospital has committed negligence, the vice-governor immediately arranges a loud debriefing so that there is no disgrace. And of course, Galina Zolina is famous for her favorite project - the Cossack ethno-cultural museum “Ataman”. When holidays are held there, people come to the Taman Peninsula from all regions of the region, so perhaps every Kuban resident has already visited Atamani.
Vera Galushko – hostess of the Krasnodar City Duma
She began her political career in Soviet times. In the 90s she worked as the manager of the affairs of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory, then as deputy head of the regional administration. From 2001 to 2010, she headed the regional election commission. Today Vera Galushko is the chairman of the Krasnodar City Duma.
“There can’t be any disagreements at the second step of the ranking either - this is, of course, Vera Fedorovna Galushko,” notes FederalPress.South expert Gennady Podlesny. – Vera Fedorovna has come a long way in working in various administrative institutions, and, of course, she is best known and remembered as the head of the regional election commission. This allows her to take second place in the regional ranking of female politicians. If we talk about female politicians in Krasnodar, she would undoubtedly occupy first place in the ranking.”
Svetlana Bessarab – “knows how to ignite people and lead them”
In 2001, she graduated from the Krasnodar Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia with a degree in jurisprudence. Widely known in trade union circles in the region. In 2013, Svetlana Bessarab began her political career. She becomes a deputy of the regional parliament and co-chairman of the Krasnodar regional branch of the “People's Front - for Russia!”
Svetlana Bessarab came to big politics recently, and, naturally, deserves to be placed on the Olympus of famous women of Kuban, since she worked for many years and now works in trade unions. “Now she is a member of the regional legislative assembly. At the same time, there are certain restrictions due to political fame, since she previously became the co-chairman of the regional branch of the Popular Front, she was known mainly by those who were faced with trade union work. Yes, they knew that she was an active trade union leader, a respected person, but for the general public to know her, this was not the case due to the specifics of her work. Now, having entered the structures of the ONF, becoming a regional deputy, she is gaining popularity. I think she has a great future. As a smart, intelligent person, she knows how to ignite people and lead them,” says Gennady Podlesny.
Lyudmila Chernova - “star minister”
– Honored Master of Sports in Athletics. She is a 13-time USSR champion, winner of the 1981 European Cup, and champion of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
In 2006, she became director of the department of physical culture and sports of the Krasnodar region. Later she was appointed Minister of Physical Education and Sports. Lyudmila Chernova's daughter Tatyana is already a titled athlete, bronze medalist of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and two-time world champion among juniors.
“An Olympic region should have an Olympic champion sports minister,” experts note, “and it’s doubly nice when the ministry is headed by a charming woman.”
Tatyana Khlopova – “professional fighter”
Tatyana Khlopova – Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences. In 2012, she entered the fifth convocation of the regional parliament, where she was elected chairman of the ZSK committee on issues of culture, information policy, social protection of the population and interaction with public associations. Khlopova became the only woman in the ZSK who headed the relevant committee. Besides her, there are seven other deputies on the committee, all men.
According to Georgy Davitlidze, a voting member of the regional election commission, Tatyana Khlopova is a person to whom fate has presented different situations in life. “But she always emerged from them with dignity, like a real fighter, and not just a fighter, but a professional fighter,” says Davitlidze, “and I want to wish her the most important thing - keep it up!”
Elena Ilchenko – creative approach to business
She started her career in the field of education. A few years later she became deputy head of the social protection department of the Krasnodar Territory. She gained fame in the region in 2012, when she was appointed to the post of Minister of Social Development and Family Policy. Commenting on her assumption of office, the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev called her a great professional, as well as a caring person with a creative approach to business.
As FederalPress.Yug experts noted, if a woman is involved in politics or managing an entire ministry, her main mission is not to “stop a galloping horse.” The main thing is to make the stronger sex feel like men. “This skill in women is priceless,” our interlocutors say.
The editors of FederalPress.South heartily congratulate our lovely women on the upcoming holiday. Be healthy, loved and happy! And let men shower you with flowers and gifts not only on this day, but throughout the year.
Municipal entity Tuapse district
Municipal budgetary educational institution
secondary school No. 34 town. Dzhubga
Class hour in 5th grade "B" on the topic:
Prepared by: Troshina A.V.
Class hour at 5 "B" on the topic: " Famous people of the Krasnodar region."
Objectives of the event:
P introduce students to outstanding personalities in the history of Kuban;
Foster a sense of pride in your region and respect for its inhabitants;
To develop feelings of patriotism through examples of heroism and dedication of famous representatives of the region;
To promote the formation of an active position aimed at the participation of young people in the economic and socio-political life of their region.
Equipment: computer, projector, image of the coat of arms, anthem, flag of Kuban.
Progress of the event.
1. Teacher's introduction .
Our class hour today is called “Famous people of the Krasnodar region. People are the main wealth of our region. Those who teach children, sow wheat, build, plow the oceans. And each of them dreams of a wonderful future for their children. The well-being and prosperity of the Krasnodar region is the result of the efforts of its inhabitants, the parents of the Kuban land, and its defenders. Today Kuban looks confidently into the future.
Native land! Your gardens and fields,
Chains of mountains, gray distance of the seas.
If only you were there, we would be alive
Your generosity and joy.
(I. Varrava)
2. Main part.
Now let's get acquainted with the heroes who glorified Kuban with their work.
Padalka Gennady Ivanovich(born June 21, 1958 in Krasnodar) – Russian cosmonaut, Air Force colonel. As of September 12, 2015, Padalka ranks first in terms of duration of stay in space - 878 days. Gennady Ivanovich Padalka was born on June 21, 1958 in the city of Krasnodar in the family of a tractor driver. 89th cosmonaut of Russia and 384th cosmonaut of the world, commander of the Soyuz TM-28 spacecraft and the Mir orbital research complex, pilot-cosmonaut of the Russian Federation , Lieutenant Colonel.
In October 1979 he graduated from the Yeisk Higher Military Aviation School named after V.M. Komarov. Since December 1979, he served as a pilot of the 559th Aviation Regiment of Fighter-Bombers as part of the 105th Aviation Division of Fighter-Bombers of the 61st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps of the 16th Air Force of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.From August 13, 1998 to February 28, 1999, he made his first space flight as the commander of the expedition to the Mir space station and the Soyuz TM-28 spacecraft. He launched together with S.V. Avdeev and Yu.M. Baturin. During the flight he made one spacewalk, duration 5 hours 54 minutes. From April 19 to October 24, 2004, he made his second space flight as the commander of the crew of the main expedition of the ISS and the Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft. At the station from April 21 to October 23, 2004. During the flight, he performed four spacewalks. The flight duration was 187 days 21 hours 16 minutes 9 seconds. From March 26 to October 11, 2009, he made his third space flight as commander of the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft and commander of the 19th and 20th main expeditions of the ISS. During the flight, he performed two spacewalks.Awarded: Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd (04/2/2010) and 4th (02/23/2005) degrees, medals. Laureate of the Russian Government Prize.
Ponomarenko Grigory Fedorovich - the great Soviet composer, People's Artist of the USSR, was born in the village of Morovsk, Ostersky district, Chernigov region in Ukraine, into a peasant family. Since childhood, Grigory Fedorovich showed a love for music. The text of the eleventh ends here slide In 1959-60 Fedor Grigorievich together with V.F. The Bokovs create the famous song “Orenburg Down Shawl.” In 1972, at the invitation of the Krasnodar Regional Committee, Grigory Fedorovich came to the “Kuban Musical Spring” festival. He liked it so much in Kuban that at the end of the summer of that year he became a local composer.
In the Kuban, Ponomarenko writes such famous songs as “The Cossack rode to Kuban”, “Krasnodar Spring”, “Oh dear village” (to the poems of Ivan Varavva), “Kubanochka”, “Labour Hands”, “Planted I am the gardens,” (to the poems of Sergei Khokhlov), “I planted gardens.” “Khutora” (to the words of Tatyana Golub), “Krasnodar Red Street” (to the words of the poet Nikolai Dorizo). The text of the twelfth ends here slide G.F. Ponomarenko laureate of the prize named after. K.V. Rossinsky Administration of the Krasnodar Territory (1995), honorary citizen of the city of Krasnodar (1993), honorary member of the Krasnodar State Academy. Recording companies of the USSR, Russia, England, Japan, Germany, Finland have released more than 30 records of works by G.F. Ponomarenko, 4 CDs, about 30 collections of songs have been published. He is the author of music for performances staged on the stages of the Maly Theater of the USSR, theaters in Omsk, Kuibyshev, Gorky, and Rostov. Krasnodar and other cities. He wrote songs for the films “Stepmother”, “Fatherlessness”, “Ah, Autumn, Autumn”, etc. In 1985 I. G.F. Ponomarenko was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR, and in 1990 - People's Artist of the USSR. Grigory Fedorovich died tragically - in a car accident, on January 7, 1996, a month before his 75th birthday. Throughout his life, G.F. Ponomarenko wrote music for about 970 works. On February 2, 2001, a monument to Grigory Fedorovich Ponomarenko was erected in Krasnodar and a memorial plaque was erected on the house where he lived. By decree of the head of the administration of the Krasnodar region, the Memorial Museum-Apartment of People's Artist of the USSR G.F. was established. Ponomarenko.
Zakharchenko Viktor Gavrilovich artistic director Kuban Cossack Choir. On October 14, 1811, the foundation of professional musical activity in the Kuban was laid, and the glorious creative path of the Black Sea Military Singing Choir began. On October 14, 1974, Viktor Gavrilovich Zakharchenko, a folklorist scholar, choirmaster and composer, was appointed artistic director of the choir. With the arrival of Viktor Gavrilovich to the leadership of the choir, the collective rose to the heights of creativity and gained worldwide fame.
Over the 35 years of his activity in Kuban, V. G. Zakharchenko managed to fully realize his artistic aspirations and lead the team to new creative frontiers. Today the group consists of 146 artists. During his time leading the choir, V. G. Zakharchenko turned the collective into an international-class ensemble. The geography of the choir's tours is vast; it is applauded on five continents and in dozens of countries around the world. Now he is based in Krasnodar, in his own building, specially allocated for him by the leadership of the Krasnodar region.
The choir actively took part in the opening and closing of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games. A cultural and Olympic project of the State Academic Kuban Cossack Choir has been prepared for the 2014 Olympics: “22 concerts of the Kuban Cossack Choir - for the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi!” - this was a special Olympic tour of the group through the capitals of the Winter Olympics and c.
The concept of the Kuban Folk Culture Center, created in 1990, was developed and implemented, later renamed the State Scientific and Creative Institution (STU) “Kuban Cossack Choir”.
UpholsterersKronid Aleksandrovich Oboishchikov- the pride of Kuban poetry, a famous poet and public figure in Russia. He is a participant in the Great Patriotic War, glorifies the military feats of our multinational people, the heroism of our soldiers who bore the brunt of the war on their shoulders and, together with the selfless workers of the home front, achieved Victory. Kronid Aleksandrovich Oboishchikov was born on April 10, 1920 in the village of Tatsinovskaya, Rostov region. His school years were spent in the Kuban: in Bryukhovetskaya, Kropotkin, Armavir, Novorossiysk. At the end of 1940, K. Oboishchikov graduated from the Krasnodar Military Aviation School. From the first days of the war, he participated in fierce battles, defending Odessa and Kyiv. Then his air regiment covered allied caravans in the Barents and White Seas. For courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders. Kronid Oboishchikov was awarded three orders and twelve medals.
And the following people attracted the attention of the whole world, became heroes in sports, Olympic winners.
Kafelnikov Evgeniy Alexandrovich born in 1974 in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory. This is the most titled tennis player in Russian history. The first Russian tennis player won the Grand Slam singles tournament and became the first racket of the world.
Chernova Lyudmila Alexandrovna(born in 1955 in Norilsk) – Soviet track and field athlete, Olympic champion. Since 2012 - Minister of Physical Culture and Sports of the Krasnodar Territory.
Bragina Lyudmila Ivanovna(born in 1943 - Soviet middle-distance runner, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, competed for Dynamo (Krasnodar) Kuban represented 30 athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.
What famous people of the Krasnodar region do you know?
3. Conclusion.
Teacher: We, of course, did not have time to talk about all the famous people of our region. There are a lot of them. With their whole lives they proved that a heroic people lives in the Kuban and their deeds are heroic!
Please think about what contribution you, students of grade 5 “B”, can make to the development of Kuban?
Kuban is a land like this:
Only the first ray slides - And the field comes to life,
And the thunder of the earth floats, And the plow cuts off the earth,
Like butter. All year round
Something is being sown here, and something is being harvested,
And something is blooming. Kuban is a land like this:
From edge to edge Two Denmarks will enter.
Washed by the seas, hidden in the forests,
Wheat fields looking into the sky.
And snowy peaks - Like a gray-haired warrior,
Like the wisdom of antiquity. Kuban is a land like this:
In it is the glory of battle and the glory of labor
Bonded with cement.
Fire Cossack,
Beautiful, young,
Kuban is a land like this:
One day he will caress you -
you will love forever!
Purpose of the event:
To form students’ idea of the glorious Kuban people - the inhabitants of Kuban - as the main wealth of the entire Krasnodar region;
- prove, using examples of the life activities of famous residents, that “heroic people live in the Kuban”;
- develop feelings of patriotism through examples of heroism and dedication of famous representatives of the region.
Konstantin Obraztsov
Ophthalmologist, a regional hospital in Krasnodar is named after him
Ochapovsky Stanislav Vladimirovich
Kuban professor, microbiologist
Ivan Grigorievich SAVCHENKO
Kuban poet
Vitaly Bakaldin
16 .06.27 - 30 .12.09
24 .11.1848 – 12.04.1918
Archaeologist
Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovsky
24 .11.1848 – 12.04.1918
Head of the State Kuban Cossack Choir
Zakharchenko Viktor Gavrilovich
Artistic director of the State Academic Kuban Cossack Choir, general director of the State National Technical University "Kuban Cossack Choir", professor, composer. Member of the Council for Culture and Art under the President of the Russian Federation.
1. Author of the words of the anthem of the Krasnodar region “You, Kuban, you are our Motherland.” 2. An outstanding ophthalmologist, a regional hospital in Krasnodar is named after him, in the courtyard of which there is a monument to the scientist. 3. Famous Kuban poet, author of the poem “I did not grow up among birches.” 4. Famous archaeologist who excavated the famous Maikop mound. 5. Scientist, breeder who created high-oil sunflower varieties. 6. Director of the State Kuban Cossack Choir. 7. The largest state museum in the North Caucasus, a nature reserve of federal significance, is named after him. 8. A well-known poet in the city of Goryachiy Klyuch, a resident of the Saratov village.
In Russia, in recent years, competitions such as “Name of Russia”, “Military Glory of Russia” and so on have become quite popular, identifying historical figures, generals, and cultural figures who played a special role in Russian history. Our small homeland, of course, has people who, without exaggeration, can be called “outstanding.” "Novaya Gazeta Kuban" decided to compile its "ten most outstanding people of Kuban"
The year 1793 was chosen as the starting point - the year of the founding of Yekaterinodar, the beginning of the development of Kuban by the Cossacks. Of course, interesting pages can be found earlier in the history of Kuban, but still the Bosporan kings and Sarmatian leaders are hardly perceived as something close to them. We decided to exclude from the list historical figures whose outstanding role in the history of Kuban is undeniable, but the acts that made these figures historical were still accomplished in other places. So Catherine the Great, Alexander Suvorov, Georgy Zhukov, Mikhail Lermontov will also remain outside the scope of this list. I will also note that this article will outline my subjective view of those people who left the most noticeable mark in the history of Kuban. For convenience, their list is laid out in chronological order - from the founding of the city to the present day.
Speaking about the Cossacks-Cossacks, who once laid the foundation for our city, it is difficult to single out any one person: what is not a name is already history, a legend, already a noticeable mark in the history of Ekaterinodar-Krasnodar. And yet, among all these Cossack atamans, esauls and Cossack foremen, I would especially highlight the figure of a military judge - the ataman of the Black Sea Cossack army, a brave warrior, a talented diplomat and organizer Anton Golovaty.
He was born into the family of a Little Russian foreman in the village of Novye Sanzhary in the Poltava region. He received a good education at home, which he continued at the Kyiv Bursa, where his extraordinary abilities in science, languages, literary and musical gifts were revealed - Anton composed poems and songs, sang well and played the bandura. In 1757, Anton appeared in the Sich and enrolled in the Kushchevsky (according to other sources, Vasyurinsky) kuren. In 1762, he was elected ataman at the same time, thanks to this appointment, he was included in the delegation of Zaporozhye Cossacks that went to St. Petersburg for the celebrations of the coronation of Catherine II, where he was introduced to the empress. In 1768, he was appointed military clerk, which corresponded to the rank of regimental foreman.
He took an active part in the sea campaigns of the Cossacks in the Russian-Turkish War of 1768 - 1774. At the end of the war, the results of which were the annexation of the lands between the Bug and the Dnieper to Russia, the Cossacks hoped to take possession of part of these lands, in return for those Sichs that the Russian government distributed to landowners from Great Russia. Golovaty, as an experienced debater in land matters, was included in the delegation of Zaporozhye Cossacks under the leadership of Sidor Bely to St. Petersburg in 1774. The delegation was supposed to petition the Empress for the return of the Cossacks to their former Sich lands - “liberties” - and the granting of new “liberties”. The delegation in St. Petersburg faced failure: in June 1775, the Sich was liquidated. Being outside the Sich at that moment (on the way from St. Petersburg to the Sich) saved the members of the delegation from punishment and disgrace.
During Catherine the Great’s trip to Crimea, a deputation of former Cossacks, which included Anton Golovaty, petitioned the Empress in Kremenchug to organize the “Troop of Loyal Cossacks” from former Cossacks. Consent was given. The army recruited “hunters” into two detachments - mounted and on foot (for service on Cossack boats). Golovaty was appointed head of the foot detachment. On January 22, 1788, he was elected military judge of the entire newly created army - the second figure in the Cossack hierarchy after the military chieftain. With the beginning of the Russian-Turkish War of 1787 - 91, the army of loyal Cossacks took an active part in it. In the summer of 1788, the Cossack "gulls" under the command of Golovaty successfully proved themselves during the siege of Ochakov, after which the detachment of Cossack boats was transformed into the Black Sea Cossack flotilla, the command of which was entrusted to Golovaty. On November 7 of the same year, the Cossacks and their flotilla stormed the fortified island of Berezan, after the fall of which Ochakov was soon captured. For this, Golovaty was awarded his first award - in May 1789 he was awarded the Order of St. George, 4th degree. And on November 24, 1789 Anton Golovaty was promoted to Cossack colonel.
After the conclusion of peace, the army of loyal Cossacks was given new Russian lands obtained as a result of the war, along the Black Sea coast between the Dniester and Bug rivers, and the army itself was renamed the Black Sea Cossack army. However, the allocated land was not enough for the Black Sea people, and in 1792, at the head of the Cossack delegation, Golovaty went to the capital with the aim of presenting Catherine II with a petition to provide land to the Black Sea Cossack army in the Taman region and the “surroundings”, in return for the selected Sich lands. Golovaty asked to allocate land to the army not only in Taman and the Kerch Peninsula (to which Potemkin had already agreed back in 1788), but also land on the right bank of the Kuban River, then not yet inhabited by anyone. Golovaty’s education and diplomacy played a role in the success of the enterprise: at the audience he spoke Latin and managed to convince Catherine of the universal benefits of such a resettlement - the Black Sea Cossacks were granted lands in Taman and Kuban “for eternal and hereditary possession.”
Upon arrival in Kuban, until the fall, Golovaty was engaged in demarcating military land and building his own house. In the fall, together with the military clerk Timofey Kotyarevsky, he compiled a civil code of the Black Sea people, “The Order of Common Benefit,” according to which the region was divided into 40 kurens. In January 1794, the first military council met in their new homeland. At it, the “Order…” was approved, the name of the regional capital was approved - Yekaterinodar, and the kuren atamans received kuren plots by casting lots - lyas.
In 1794, military chieftain Zakhary Chepega was sent with a regiment of Cossacks to suppress the Polish uprising. Golovaty remained the first person in the army. He was involved in the construction of a military harbor for the Cossack flotilla in the Kiziltash estuary and helped the regular Russian army in the construction of the Phanagoria fortress. Golovaty also took care of attracting professional builders, artisans, teachers, doctors and pharmacists from Little Russia.
In 1796, Golovaty received the rank of brigadier and took part in the Russian campaign against Persia under the command of Valerian Zubov. On February 26, 1796, the regiments set out on a campaign from Ekaterinodar to Astrakhan, where they were put on ships and departed for Baku by the Caspian Sea. Golovaty was entrusted with command of the Caspian flotilla and the landing troops attached to it. In mid-November of the same year, Commander Fyodor Apraksin dies. Golovaty was appointed in his place - commander of the ground forces and the Caspian flotilla. After the death of Catherine, Paul ordered the end of this military campaign and the return of the expedition to Russia. Diseases began in the detachment, which claimed the lives of many Cossacks, including their commander. At that moment, in the capital of the Black Sea Cossacks, Yekaterinodar, military ataman Zakhary Chepega died. Golovaty was elected by the Cossacks as ataman of the Black Sea Cossack army. He never learned of his election. On the way back from the Persian campaign, Anton Golovaty died on the island of Kamyshevan on January 28, 1797.
Another famous person who began the development of Kuban by the Cossacks, Archpriest Kirill Rossinsky- the first educator of the Black Sea Cossack army. He was born on March 17, 1774 in Novomirgorod in the family of a priest. He studied at the Novorossiysk Theological Seminary, where, after completing the course, Rossinsky became a teacher of the information class and the Law of God. In June 1798, he was ordained a priest and, leaving teaching service, on August 24 he was appointed a priest for the Novomirgorod Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, and in 1800 he was elevated to the rank of archpriest and transferred to the city of Taganrog. In 1803, at the request of the entire Black Sea army, Rossinsky was appointed by Athanasius, Archbishop of Ekaterinoslav, to the city of Ekaterinodar as the military archpriest of the Black Sea army and at the same time the first present of the Ekaterinodar Spiritual Board.
Rossinsky was an extraordinary person; he was distinguished by his varied interests: he read a lot, wrote poetry, and was even known as a skilled doctor. He was also known as a writer and contributor to the magazines “Competitor of Enlightenment” and “Ukrainian Herald”. He was a member of the Kharkov Society of Sciences, which counted him among its external members in the department of verbal sciences, the Imperial Humane Society, and an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Free Society of Lovers of Russian Literature. At his suggestion, a military singing choir was created, which became an excellent creative team and custodian of folk songs.
Rossinsky was also involved in the establishment of new schools and the spread of literacy among the Cossacks. With his participation, the first Ekaterinodar school was transformed into a college in 1806 so that “young hearts could be educated.” It taught: grammar, the basics of geometry and natural sciences, geography, history, as well as “instruction in the positions of man and citizen” (as the rules of morality, duty and honor of a Russian citizen were called two centuries ago). Ataman Fyodor Bursak appointed Kirill Rossinsky to the honorary position of caretaker of the Ekaterinodar School. Later, Rossinsky opened parochial schools in Taman, the villages of Shcherbinovskaya, Bryukhovetskaya, Grivenskaya, Rogovskaya and Temryuk.
In 1820, a gymnasium was created in Yekaterinodar at the suggestion of Rossinsky and with his participation. She was located near the fortress, in a spacious house in which the first Kuban ataman Chepega once lived. Rossinsky becomes the first director of the military gymnasium. Here he collects a large library, opens a mineralogy cabinet and an archaeological museum. At his suggestion, the teaching of military sciences began at the gymnasium.
He lived only about fifty years, but accomplished a lot. He often refused his salary in favor of the poor and tirelessly helped those in need. In 1825, the Kuban Cossack Army petitioned General A.P. Ermolov about financial assistance to Kirill Rossinsky, since “the selfless and honest archpriest fell into extreme poverty towards the end of his life.” Rossinsky is given an allowance of five thousand rubles and decides to award him the Order of St. Anna, II degree, decorated with diamonds. But Kirill Vasilyevich did not have time to rejoice at his well-deserved awards: on December 12, 1825, he died. Rossinsky was buried in the Ekaterinodar Resurrection Cathedral.
Initially, and until the mid-19th century, Kuban was a kind of frontier of Russian history: a border territory where Kuban Cossacks and Russian soldiers were forced to repel the raids of warlike highlanders over and over again. And naturally, successful commanders, Cossack atamans and Russian officers also made a huge contribution to the formation of today’s Kuban. Among them stands out a controversial, very controversial figure of a man who nevertheless played a significant role in the history of Kuban, a cavalry general, commander of the Kuban line, Baron Grigory Khristoforovich von Sass.
A native of an old Westphalian family, a hereditary military man, a participant in the foreign campaigns of the Russian army of 1813-1814, in 1820 he went to serve in the Caucasus, where in 1833 he became the head of the Batalpaschinsky department of the Kuban line. Already in the second month of his leadership of the Batalpashinsky section, Zass undertook the first successful military expedition into enemy territory. Zass formulated the main principle of his tactics as follows: “It is better to be held accountable for crossing the Kuban than to leave predators without prosecution.” Encouraged by success, Zass made several more Trans-Kuban expeditions in August - October 1833. At the same time, Zass showed brilliant mastery of all the specific techniques of the Caucasian war: ambushes, rapid attacks, false retreats, etc. In 1835, Zass was awarded a golden saber with the inscription “For bravery” and appointed commander of the entire Kuban line. His military skill and great personal courage earned him great fame both among his comrades and among his enemies. Andrei Rosen in “Notes of the Decembrist” noted: “None of the leaders of the Russian army were so afraid of the Circassians, and not one of them enjoyed such fame among the mountaineers as this original Courlander. His military cunning was as remarkable and worthy of surprise as his fearlessness, and at the same time he also revealed an extraordinary ability to study the character of the Caucasian peoples." Zass's bravery and especially incredible knowledge of the enemy's affairs earned him the reputation among the mountaineers as a man associated with otherworldly forces. In 1840, Zass took the post of commander of the right flank of the Caucasian line, stretching from the village of Vasyurinskaya on the border of the Black Sea army west to the mouth of the Laba and further up it to Georgievsk. By 1843, he founded the villages of Urupskaya, Voznesenskaya, Chemlykskaya and Labinskaya. Armavir, which grew up on the site of one of these settlements, owes its existence to Zassu, when representatives of the “Circassian Armenians” (Circassogai) in 1836 turned to von Sass with a request to “accept them under the protection of Russia and give them the means to settle near the Russians.” The resettlement of the Circassian people to the place chosen by Grigory Zass took place in April 1839. Zass himself wrote in his memoirs that “in the same month (May 1839) I resettled those I had brought out of the mountains in 1839 to the left bank of the Kuban opposite the Strong Trench Armenians, who, together with those taken from Lieutenant Colonel Petisov, amounted to about 300 families." This date can be considered the final date of the founding of Armavir, which played an important role in the annexation of the Trans-Kuban region to Russia.
Of non-Kuban origin, but, of course, a significant personality in the history of the Kuban region was Nikolay Karmalin, ataman of the Kuban Cossack army in 1873-83.
Originally from the Ryazan nobles, a participant in the Caucasian War, he remained one of the most notable historical figures of Kuban, perhaps in its entire history. The Caucasian War had recently ended, and the Cossack region, which had been on the frontier for several decades, needed to be returned to peaceful life. And Nikolai Karmalin coped with this task quite well. Kuban historian and writer Fyodor Shcherbina wrote about this undoubtedly outstanding person:
“The name of this ataman will always be associated with the general economic rise of the region and its cultural growth, which accompanied Nikolai Nikolaevich’s management of the Kuban Cossacks and the region. Nikolai Nikolaevich was not only an outstanding administrator, but also a highly educated boss and a rare person for the population. Solid education, extensive erudition in the field of economic and social issues, wide familiarity with the matter, ease of use and deep interest in the needs of the region and the Cossacks - these are the main features that permeated Nikolai Nikolaevich’s activities in the Kuban region from beginning to end.”
Under Karmalin, the region began to develop rapidly. Industry appeared. The Cossack villages began to rapidly grow rich. The production of marketable grain developed widely both due to the diligence and hard work of the Cossacks freed from excessive military burden, and due to the efforts of nonresidents. Representatives of the intelligentsia and entrepreneurs began to come to Kuban, and secondary education developed. The economic development of the region, agriculture, trade, communications, village self-government, Cossack communal land orders, school affairs, study of the region, etc. - all this attracted the attention of Nikolai Nikolaevich, he treated all this with rare interest and care. His wife, Lyubov Karmalina, in 1874 became the chairman of the board of the Ekaterinodar Women's Charitable Society. In 1975 she contributed to the creation of the Kuban Economic Society. Since 1877 - member of the board of the Kuban Women's Mariinsky Institute.
To tell the truth, both the Kuban region and the Krasnodar region were and remain remote provinces, with no claims to any special role in the Russian state. Only once did our region try to become not an object, but a real subject of politics, both domestic and international. And this was connected with the name of the ideological inspirer of the Kuban Republic, the real (without any irony) “father of Kuban democracy,” a prominent political and public figure of the beginning of the last century, Mikola Ryabovol.
He was born in 1883 in the village of Dinskaya in the family of a village clerk. It took a lot of work for the father to educate his first-born son in the primary classes of the Ekaterinodar Military Real School, and Mikola himself had to obtain funds to continue his education in high school. In 1905 - 1907, Ryabovol studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, but due to lack of funds (according to the Ukrainian version, due to participation in student performances) he stopped studying in the third year. This did not stop him from making a quick career when, in 1907, his father founded a credit cooperative, where Ryabovol became his parent’s assistant. In 1909, the village delegated him to the founding congress on the construction of the cooperative Kuban-Black Sea railway. Here he was elected to the organizing committee and took on the responsibility of approving the road charter by the authorities, as well as bank financing of the enterprise and the selection of construction and technical personnel. After the successful completion of the task in 1912, Ryabovol was promoted to the post of one of the directors of the board. In 1915, Mikola Ryabovol was mobilized into the army and sent to study at the military engineering school, which he successfully completed, receiving the rank of ensign. He continued his service in a sapper unit in Finland, where he met the February Revolution. In 1917, Mikola Ryabovol returned home from Finland to Kuban. And on April 30 - May 3, 1917, a meeting of the Cossacks took place in Yekaterinodar, where a Cossack government was formed - the Kuban Military Rada, of which Mikola Ryabovol was elected chairman
Under the leadership of Ryabovol, in September 1917 the Military Rada renamed itself the Kuban Regional Rada. At this session, the first Kuban “constitution” (“Temporary provisions on the highest authorities in the Kuban region”) was also adopted. According to it, the Legislative Council became the highest legislative body, and the executive power was the Kuban regional government and the military ataman, who had presidential powers and the right of veto on adopted laws. In November 1917, Ryabovol was elected chairman of the Legislative Rada. It was he who initiated the proclamation of the Kuban Republic on January 8, 1918.
The Kuban People's Republic, which opposed the Bolsheviks, initially entered into an alliance with the Ukrainian power of the hetman and with the Volunteer Army of General Lavr Kornilov. The Rada could not defend Yekaterinodar on its own, and there was simply no alternative to an alliance with volunteers. Moreover, the Cossack federalists found a common language with the ancestral Cossack Kornilov. However, after the death of Lavr Grigorievich, the Volunteer Army was led by the convinced centralizer Denikin. Relations between the Rada and the White Army deteriorated every day. Mikola Ryabovol contrasted the idea of the “One and Indivisible” with the idea of the “Free Union of Free Peoples”. To implement this plan, he initiated a conference with the participation of representatives of the Cossacks of the Don, Terek and Kuban. On the day of departure for Rostov, the chairman of the Military Rada dined with close friends. Suddenly Ryabovol said: “But I’m still sure that the volunteers will kill me - now or later, but they will still kill me...”
On June 13, 1919, the conference began its work. At it, Ryabovol spoke about the need to unite the state entities of Ukraine, Kuban, Don, Terek, and Georgia to fight the Bolsheviks and unite on democratic principles. He sharply criticized the ideology and policies of the Volunteer Army, although he also saw it as part of the future Union. And the next day the prediction came true - Mikola Ryabovol was killed. Although the killer was never found, many believed that this was the work of Denikin’s counterintelligence. Three days of mourning were declared in Kuban. The ceremonial funeral took place on June 19 in Yekaterinodar. In Soviet times, the name of Nikolai Ryabovol was actually banned; only the Cossacks passed down the song “On the Death of Mykola Ryabovol” (author Miron Zaporozhets) from generation to generation, as a people’s lament for all the countless victims of our bloody history.
Another extremely controversial, but very famous historical figure of Kuban during the civil war is General Andrey Shkuro , a native of the village of Pashkovskaya. He took part in the First World War, where, as part of the 3rd Caucasian Army Corps, he took part in heavy battles on the Southwestern Front in Galicia. Shkuro was wounded several times, and for his courage and skillful command of a platoon in the Battle of Galicia he was awarded the Order of St. Anne, 4th degree. At the beginning of November 1914, A.G. Shkuro, in the battles near Radom, together with the Don people, captured a large number of Austrians, as well as guns and machine guns, for which he was awarded the St. George's Arms. In 1915, “for excellence in business,” Shkuro was promoted to esaul. Having recovered from another wound and taking advantage of the calm at the front, he proposes to the command a project for the formation of a special forces detachment. Having received approval, Shkuro in December 1915 - January 1916. from the Kuban Cossacks he organizes the Kuban Special Purpose Cavalry Detachment, which operates behind enemy lines on the Western Front, in the Minsk province and in the region of the southern Carpathians: raids, destruction of bridges, artillery depots, convoys. The black banner of the Kuban Special Purpose Cavalry Detachment with the image of a wolf's head, a hat made of wolf fur, and a battle cry imitating a wolf's howl gave rise to the unofficial name of Shkuro's detachment - "Wolf Hundred". After the revolution of 1917, Andrei Shkuro became an active participant in the white movement; Shkuro organized a partisan detachment in the Kislovodsk region, where his family lived at that time. In May - June 1918, the detachment carried out raids on Stavropol, Essentuki and Kislovodsk occupied by the Reds. In June 1918, Shkuro's detachment occupied Stavropol, where it united with the approaching volunteer army of General Denikin. At the end of 1918 - beginning of 1919, Shkuro took part in battles in the Caucasus, and on November 9 (22), 1918, Shkuro was appointed head of the Caucasian Cavalry (in November - 1st Caucasian Cossack) division, deployed from the Kuban partisan separate brigade; On November 30 (December 13) he was promoted to major general for military distinction. In the spring - summer of 1919, Shkuro's corps took part in the battles in Ukraine for Kharkov and Yekaterinoslav. On 2 July 1919, for his heroic actions alongside the British forces, King George V awarded him the Order of the Bath. During the Moscow campaign, Shkuro's 3rd Kuban Corps was tasked with occupying Voronezh, which the Cossacks successfully did on September 17, 1919, taking 13,000 prisoners and a lot of weapons. However, in October, the Reds launched a large-scale attack on Voronezh on several sectors of the front, and on October 11, Shkuro and Mamontov abandoned the city, which Budyonny’s cavalry occupied, and began to retreat south. During the “Novorossiysk disaster,” Shkuro’s corps, like many other units of the armed forces in southern Russia, did not have enough space on the ships, so it withdrew to Tuapse and further to Sochi. From there he was transported by separate detachments to Crimea. As a single body, the corps ceased to exist. After the Civil War, Shkuro lived in exile, and with the outbreak of WWII he took the side of Germany, guided by the principle “even with the devil, but against the Bolsheviks.” However, Shkuro himself did not take personal part in the fighting of World War II. In 1945, according to the decisions of the Yalta Conference, the British interned Shkuro and other Cossacks in Austria and then handed them over to the Soviet Union. By the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, Shkuro, together with P. N. Krasnov, Helmut von Pannwitz, Timofey Domanov, was sentenced to hanging and executed in Moscow on January 16, 1947.
Another Kuban Cossack, a participant in the white movement, who ended his life in the USSR, one of the first air aces of Russia, a military pilot of the Russian Empire, Vyacheslav Tkachev.
He was born in 1885 in the village of Kelermesskaya, Maikop department of the Kuban region. He graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Cadet Corps and the Konstantinovsky Artillery School in 1906. He began his service in the 2nd Kuban Battery. In 1911, having observed the first airplane flights in Russia in Odessa, he begged the command to send him, at public expense, to a private school at the local flying club. Then, on the recommendation of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, he entered the Sevastopol Aviation School, which he graduated with honors. In 1913, he made a record flight on a Newport along the route Kyiv - Odessa - Kerch - Taman - Yekaterinodar and at the same time participated in the formation and training of the first large aviation unit of the Russian army - the 3rd air company in Kyiv. By the beginning of the First World War, he received a new assignment: on August 1, 1914, he was already the commander of the 20th corps aviation detachment. In December 1914, on the southwestern front, the commander of the aviation detachment, Vyacheslav Tkachev, carrying only a revolver pistol, was the first among Russian pilots to attack a German albatross airplane and, by his actions, forced the enemy to retreat. Being an excellent pilot, Tkachev had outstanding organizational skills and the ability to make theoretical generalizations. It was he who was one of the initiators of the creation of special fighter units and even published the book “Material on Air Combat Tactics.” At the beginning of 1917, Lieutenant Colonel V. Tkachev was appointed commander of an air division, then an aviation inspector of the southwestern front, and on June 6, 1917, he became the head of the field department of aviation and aeronautics at the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
On November 19, 1917, having learned about the upcoming occupation of the Commander-in-Chief's headquarters by arriving Petrograd soldiers led by the new Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Warrant Officer Krylenko, Tkachev submitted his resignation, and the next day, without waiting for an answer, he voluntarily left for the front. In the note he left, he addressed the chairman of the aviation council with a final appeal. In it, he explained his departure as follows:
“Considering it my moral duty to the Motherland in its difficult days of trials to work, fighting with all our might and means against the terrible poison carried by the criminals of the people and the state - the Bolsheviks, and not sit under arrest, I submitted a report on November 19 to the chief of staff with a request to dismiss me from position occupied..."
Having made his way to Kuban, Tkachev, after much ordeal, finally comes into the possession of the regional government. Since the Whites had practically no aviation, Vyacheslav Matveyevich was sent to Ukraine to Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky as a military foreman of the Kuban Emergency Mission. History is silent about how successful this mission was, but, in any case, he managed to get something from aviation property, because after returning to Ekaterinodar he began to form the 1st Kuban air detachment. In 1920, Tkachev headed the Russian Army Air Force under Lieutenant General Baron Wrangel in Crimea. In June 1920, in southern Russia, as the Red Army pushed back Polish troops, General Wrangel advanced into Ukraine. Attack squadrons armed with British DH-9 aircraft under the command of General Vyacheslav Tkachev took an active part in the hostilities at this time. They managed to inflict serious damage on the ground forces of the Red Army. For this company he was awarded a very rare award - the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
After the evacuation from Crimea, Tkachev settled in Yugoslavia, where he began teaching. During World War II, Tkachev, unlike many other veterans of the white movement, refused to cooperate with the Nazis in their war with the Soviet Union and lived in Belgrade as a private citizen. When Soviet troops approached Belgrade in October 1944, Vyacheslav Tkachev refused to evacuate, and on October 20, 1944 he was arrested by SMERSH of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, after which he was taken to Moscow, where he received 10 years as an enemy of the people. After serving his full term, Tkachev returned to Kuban, where in the last years of his life he lived in Krasnodar, worked in the artel of disabled bookbinders named after. Chapaev for 27 rubles 60 kopecks. Tkachev is the author of several notes, the story about Nesterov “Russian Falcon” and the memoirs “Wings of Russia”. He died in 1965 in poverty.
The most outstanding figure of the Cossack Kuban in its entire history can rightfully be called the senior contemporary of Ryabovol, Shkuro and Tkachev, Kuban Cossack politician and public figure, historian, founder of Russian budget statistics, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, member of the Kuban Rada, head of the Supreme Court of the Kuban People's Republic, poet, writer "old Kuban did" Fedor Shcherbina.
Shcherbina Fedor Andreevich was born on February 13 (26), 1849 in the village of Novoderevyankovskaya Kuban region. He received his education at the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy and Novorossiysk University. Before entering the academy, together with his comrades, he organized an agricultural artel in the Kuban region, in which he worked as a simple worker. Perhaps this life and work among the common people prompted Shcherbina to study folk life.
In 1884, he took over the management of the statistical work of the Voronezh provincial zemstvo, where he worked for eighteen years, in 1903 he was administratively expelled from the Voronezh province (gained the opportunity to return in 1904) and lived for some time on his estate near Gelendzhik, Black Sea province. During these same years, Shcherbina, on behalf of the Vladikavkaz Railway, carried out economic and statistical studies of the area of this route; the results of these works were published in 1892 - 1894. under the title "General outline of the economic, commercial and industrial conditions of the Vladikavkaz railway region."
Since 1896, Shcherbina was the head of an expedition to explore the steppe regions (Akmola, Semipalatinsk and Turgai), equipped by the Ministry of Agriculture and State Property. Shcherbina devoted a lot of work to the study of the land community and artels, published articles: “Solvychegodsk land community” in “Notes of the Fatherland” for 1874 and “Land community in the Dnieper district” in “Russian Thought” for 1880 and others.
Shcherbina's works, as a zemstvo statistician, are characterized by an introduction to statistical accounting, along with production processes and the phenomena of exchange, circulation, monetary processes, and consumption of the people in general; the study of the budgets of peasants in the Voronezh province served as a prototype for all similar works by other Russian statisticians. Subsequently, Shcherbina, on behalf of the Kuban Cossack Army, was busy compiling the history of the Cossacks; as a result, he published a two-volume book, “The History of the Kuban Cossack Army.”
In addition to scientific activities, Fyodor Shcherbina was actively involved in social and political activities. In 1907, he was elected to the Second State Duma in the Kuban region. He joined the Cossack group and the People's Socialist Party. Adhering to generally liberal views, he tried to legislatively promote the solution of the most pressing agrarian issue for Russia, taking the position of the People's Socialist Party. At parliamentary meetings, a Cossack deputy advocated expanding the rights of the Duma to form the budget, for the nationalization of land and “the creation of a nationwide land fund, managed by local governments, the replenishment of which would occur through the alienation of privately owned lands at public expense.” The dispersal of the Second State Duma did not dissuade F.A. Shcherbin in the possibility of a peaceful reformist transformation of Russia. But he now expected greater results not from actions across the entire country and not “from above,” seeking concessions from the government, but in a particular region and “from below,” using and creatively developing the people’s initiative. The basis for such an experiment could be the Cossacks with their original desire for autonomy and self-government. After the February and October revolutions, Shcherbina saw the only possibility of state revival in the organization of independent democratic entities on the Cossack outskirts. “It was possible to go in construction from parts to the whole, and not from the whole, which did not exist, to the parts.” With his thoughts about what is happening in the region and in the country, F.A. Shcherbina shared on the pages of the newspaper "Volnaya Kuban" - the printed organ of the Kuban regional government, the unofficial part of which he edited from August to November 1918. But the professional statistician considered the main thing for himself to be the development of measures to stabilize the economic situation in Kuban, where he directed everything your knowledge and experience. Already in the fall of 1917, he headed the statistical commission under the 11th Kuban regional government, a year later he became the manager of the Kuban regional statistical committee, and from August 1918 he headed the financial and budgetary commission under the Legislative Rada. In January 1918, he was elected an honorary member of the Council for Survey and Study of the Kuban Territory, a scientific and executive body established by the Kuban Regional Food Administration. To correct the situation in monetary circulation, Fyodor Shcherbina proposed controlling emissions, reducing the supply of raw materials in exchange for finished products, organizing a system of local credit institutions headed by its own Regional Bank, and strengthening the position of state interest-bearing loans. When forming budget policy, he insisted on taking precautionary measures to protect the population from inflation. These included tax reform in favor of the poor, reducing the cost of maintaining the staff of central regional institutions, abandoning unjustified loans, and establishing free trade within the region. Financial and Budgetary Commission under the leadership of F.A. Shcherbina was also involved in practical activities for the development of the elevator network, the opening of an electrical plant in Temryuk and geological research on the Taman Peninsula.
In 1920, Shcherbina found himself in exile, first as part of the Kuban delegation to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. From 1921 he lived in Prague, where he worked as a professor at the Ukrainian Free University (1922-1936), and from 1924 to 1925 he was its rector. Since 1922, he was a professor of statistics at the Ukrainian Economic Academy in Podebrady (Czechoslovakia). Once in exile, he participated in the activities of Ukrainian scientific institutions, in particular, the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was elected a full member of the NTS and rector of the Ukrainian Free University. He was a professor at the Ukrainian Hospodar Academy in Poděbrady. In addition, he wrote in the Ukrainian literary language, composed the poetic poems “Chernomorets” and “Bogdan Khmelnytsky”. He died in 1936 and was buried in Prague at the Olsany cemetery. In 2008, with the support of Russian diplomats and the Czech Orthodox Church, Shcherbina's ashes were transported from Prague to Krasnodar and on September 17, 2008, they were solemnly reburied in the Holy Trinity Cathedral. 
Kuban is a grain-producing land, the granary of Russia. It is not surprising that it was here, in the village of Ivanovskaya, that an outstanding Kuban breeder, plant breeder, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the All-Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences was born Pavel Lukyanenko. Born into a Cossack family, who went through the Great Patriotic War, Lukyanenko devoted his entire life to the transformation and improvement of the main grain crop - wheat. In 1926, he graduated from the Kuban Agricultural Institute, worked as a researcher at the All-Union Institute of Plant Growing and was then associated with such luminaries of science as N.I. Vavilov and V.V. Talanov. In the mid-50s, he created the world-famous variety of winter soft wheat "Bezostaya 1", which became the most widely used. It was zoned in 48 regions of our country, in the countries of Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan. Its sown area in 1971 reached thirteen million hectares. The introduction of this variety into production made it possible to increase wheat grain yields by one and a half to two times everywhere. At the same time, it has become an extremely valuable source for breeding, widely used to this day in breeding programs in many countries around the world. Lukyanenko developed a scientific program for the selection of rust-resistant varieties with productive ears and high technological qualities; significantly improved the methodology for conducting selections in hybrid populations, reducing the time required for breeding a new variety; one of the first in the USSR to substantiate the need for breeding low-growing varieties of winter wheat. The scientist also developed a morphophysiological model of a semi-dwarf variety that is capable of producing high yields in Kuban conditions and not dying when irrigated. In total, Pavel Lukyanenko created forty-three varieties of wheat; in 1975, they occupied about forty percent of the sown area of winter wheat in the Soviet Union.
It is most difficult to evaluate contemporaries - their contribution to the development of Kuban has yet to be assessed by future generations. And yet, I would complete the “Kuban top ten” with the name of the famous Kuban writer and publicist, member of the Writers' Union of Russia Viktor Likhonosov.
You can treat him differently - both as an author and as a person, you can sneer at some of the pretentiousness of the title "Our Little Paris", but few people dispute the fact that this book has so far been and remains a literary work, in the greatest and best reflecting the very soul and essence of the Kuban Cossacks, talentedly and beautifully describing the life of the Cossack city. Likhonosov worked on this work for more than ten years to finally create this book, which in the Russian Wikipedia article dedicated to Viktor Ivanovich was called “a lyrical-epic canvas connecting the present with the past” and “a literary monument to Ekaterinodar.”
As already mentioned, this article does not pretend to be the ultimate truth and reflects the author’s personal opinion about the most notable personalities in the history of Kuban. Any reader of our newspaper has the right to name his “ten big names,” including among his contemporaries, thereby showing who they consider to be the figure who made the greatest contribution to the history of our small homeland.
Denis SHULGATY