Arkhipo-Osipovka is a seaside village (selo) and a Black Sea

Black Sea

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 resort under the jurisdiction of the town of Gelendzhik

Gelendzhik

Gelendzhik is a resort town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the Gelendzhik Bay of the Black Sea, between Novorossiysk and Tuapse . Greater Gelendzhik sprawls for along the coastline and covers an area of 122,754 ha...

 in Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai

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, Russia

Russia

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. Population: 7,613 (2006 est.);
The settlement on the shore of the Vulan Bay originated as the Cossack

Cossack

Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military communities in what is today Ukraine and Southern Russia inhabiting sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper and Don basins and who played an important role in the...

 stanitsa

Stanitsa

Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossack host . Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire.Much of the land was held in common by the...

 of Vulanovskaya in 1864. Some twenty-five years later, the village was renamed after Arkhip Osipov, a Russian soldier who had sacrificed his life to save his comrades-in-arms from the onslaught of the Circassians in 1840. There is a painting which glorifies this exploit. Arkhipo-Osipovka had a status of an urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

 until 2004.

The vicinity of Arkhipo-Osipovka contains several waterfall

Waterfall

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s and the scarce remains of an ancient Roman fortification. The economy is dependent on the Beregovaya compressor station, one of the largest in the world, which is part of the Blue Stream

Blue Stream

Blue Stream is a major trans-Black Sea gas pipeline that carries natural gas from Russia into Turkey. The pipeline has been constructed by the Blue Stream Pipeline B.V., the Netherlands based joint venture of Russian Gazprom and Italian Eni. The Blue Stream Pipeline B.V...

 pipeline system which carries natural gas from Russia to Turkey

Turkey

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 and then to Europe

Europe

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