Khadyzsk (Krasnodar Territory) 21,700 inhabitants, no small towns. A joint project with the Center for the Study of Small Cities (Ivanovo region). Located in the valley of the Pshish River, in the northern spur of the Caucasus Range, 115 km southeast of Krasnodar. Until the XIX century there was an Adyghe fortress. In 1864, on the site of the village of Charcha, Kubran Cossacks founded the village of Khadichanska, one of 54 new villages created by Alexander II after the Caucasian War. According to the most common version, the upper of Khadza is translated from Adige as "the city of the ancient tombs". The first mention of local oil refers to the middle of the XIX century. Adygs drew oil from buckets of shallow wells in natural depressions and were taken to sell to Maikop, where oil was used to lure the ax of wagons and sold as medicine. The first Russian retreat on the lands of the lega of the Cossack army dates back to 1865-1863. The Maykop oil spill occurred in 1909 when two oil wells hit. The rights were actively acquired by British companies, which by 1911 controlled up to 90% of the catches. The demons were connected by oil pipes with Ekaterinodar and Tuapse. In 1915, the Hardroy-Thorpesa railway ran along the footpaths, bypassing the Khedincheska tunnel (as if the Cossacks refused to sell the land). After the production peak in 1912 the decline began. Geologists attributed this to the sleeve-like structure of the Maykop deposits: narrow lenses of sand draining rapidly. During the civil war the British government left the area. In 1926, the transition to rotary practice opened the largest in the Kuban Neftegorskoe field. By 1939, the Maykop oil region reached the second place in oil production in the Soviet Union. At the beginning of the war, in preparation for the advance of the German soldiers, pipes were lowered into wells and liquid cement was led through them; It is caught in a strong concrete plug, which cannot be drilled. Within 5 days, more than 800 wells were shut down.

Khadyzsk (Krasnodar Territory) 21,700 inhabitants, no small towns. A joint project with the Center for the Study of Small Cities (Ivanovo region). Located in the valley of the Pshish River, in the northern spur of the Caucasus Range, 115 km southeast of Krasnodar. Until the XIX century there was an Adyghe fortress. In 1864, on the site of the village of Charcha, Kubran Cossacks founded the village of Khadichanska, one of 54 new villages created by Alexander II after the Caucasian War. According to the most common version, the upper of Khadza is translated from Adige as "the city of the ancient tombs". The first mention of local oil refers to the middle of the XIX century. Adygs drew oil from buckets of shallow wells in natural depressions and were taken to sell to Maikop, where oil was used to lure the ax of wagons and sold as medicine. The first Russian retreat on the lands of the lega of the Cossack army dates back to 1865-1863. The Maykop oil spill occurred in 1909 when two oil wells hit. The rights were actively acquired by British companies, which by 1911 controlled up to 90% of the catches. The demons were connected by oil pipes with Ekaterinodar and Tuapse. In 1915, the Hardroy-Thorpesa railway ran along the footpaths, bypassing the Khedincheska tunnel (as if the Cossacks refused to sell the land). After the production peak in 1912 the decline began. Geologists attributed this to the sleeve-like structure of the Maykop deposits: narrow lenses of sand draining rapidly. During the civil war the British government left the area. In 1926, the transition to rotary practice opened the largest in the Kuban Neftegorskoe field. By 1939, the Maykop oil region reached the second place in oil production in the Soviet Union. At the beginning of the war, in preparation for the advance of the German soldiers, pipes were lowered into wells and liquid cement was led through them; It is caught in a strong concrete plug, which cannot be drilled. Within 5 days, more than 800 wells were shut down.