Kuban Postal Museum

Krasnodar is a city located in southern Russia, the capital of Krasnodar krai. It is also known as the southern capital of Russia. The city stands on the right bank of the Kuban River, about 120-150 km from the Black and Azov Seas, 1,340 km south of Moscow.Ekaterinodar became an important center of the Kuban Cossacks in the first half of the 19th century. It received a town status in 1867. The town became a major trade and transport center of the North-Caucasian region after the construction of the railway Tikhoretsk - Ekaterinodar - Novorossiysk in 1870-1880-ies. The population of the town was about 45,000 in 1888.It was one of the centers of resistance after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. A large number of the Kuban Cossacks were fighting with the Red Army. During the Russian Civil War, Ekaterinodar de facto was the capital of the White south of Russia.In 1920, Ekaterinodar received new name - Krasnodar. There are two meanings of the word “Krasny”: “beautiful” or “red”; the word “dar” means “gift”.