Kuban Republic
a state the territory of which was formerly a province of the Russian empire, in the W. part of northern Caucasia, bordered on one side by the Black Sea and on the other by the Sea of Azov. It is watered by the river Kuban. Its population is 2,800,000, forty per cent. of which is Cossack, and 90 per cent. of which is Christian, the other ten per cent. being Tartar Moslems. It has an area of 36,645 square miles. After the collapse of the Russian autocracy, in 1917, which was followed by the disintegration of the empire, the people of the Kuban declared themselves a republic, the capital being at Ekaterinodor.