Event Passport Krasnodar Region
Water resources of the Krasnodar Region are presented with territo-
rial sea waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, as well as riv-
ers, estuaries, lakes, water reservoirs, multiple channels of hydrologic
systems and underground waters. Kuban River with a total length of
870 km and a river basin of 57,900 sq. km belongs to the category of
large rivers. Kuban River is the main waterway which is a water-supply
source for the population, business and industrial activities on the
territory of the region. The length of Kuban in the Krasnodar Region
is 662 km.
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Event Passport
Krasnodar Region
The Black Sea is located between
the Caucasus Mountains in the
North and the Pontic Mountains
in the South. In the North-East
the Black Sea connects with
the Sea of Azov via the shallow
Kerch Strait; in the South-West,
it connects with the Sea of Mar-
mara via the Bosphorus Strait,
and through the Sea of Marma-
with the Mediterranean Sea.
That's how The Black Sea is con-
nected with the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Sea of Azov is a terminal ba-
sin in a raw of the Don, the Kuban
River and rivers of the Northern
and North-Eastern Priazovie. The
length of the coastline in the
Krasnodar Region is 550 km.
The flora of the territory is repre-
sented by broad-leaved (beeches,
oaks) and dark coniferous moun-
tain (silver-firs, fir-trees) forests,
subalpine and alpine meadows.
More than 3,000 species of
plants can be found here.
Timber plays an important role
among all resources of Kuban,
because it is of special conserva-
tion interest and serves as a ma-
jor source of fine wood in Russia.
The animal world of the Krasno-
dar Region is diverse and repre-
sented with 101 species of mam-
mals, 37 species of reptiles and
amphibians, 340 species of birds
and 110 species of fishes. Be-
sides, a lot of animals have been
listed in the Russian Red Book.
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