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25-764: In antiquity, the Gelendzhik Bay was the site of a minor Greek outpost, mentioned as Torikos in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax . It is unknown to Hellenistic sources, but reappears in Roman ones under the name of Pagrae in 64 BC. The colony was wiped out by the invading Huns , which were succeeded by the Zygii soon after. During the Late Middle Ages, the Genoese Republic had a notable influence on

50-645: A chain of waterfalls , an outcrop of dolmens , two extremely ancient pine and juniper groves, and the Sail Rock , located 17 kilometers (11 mi) from the town's central area. The coastal village of Arkhipo-Osipovka , administrated from Gelendzhik, contains the terminus of the Blue Stream gas pipeline. An annual hydroaviasalon is held in Gelendzhik since 1996. Revealed on 29 March 2001 between Bietingen and Schaffhausen , Litolmore Trading Limited,

75-478: A company which conducts business in mineral fertilizers, coal, oil, gas, fuel oil, aviation and diesel fuel, is a Gelendzhik firm. A 17,691 square meters palace allegedly built for Vladimir Putin is located on the Gelendzhik Bay not far from the city. Within the framework of administrative divisions , it is, together with twenty rural localities , incorporated as the Town of Gelendzhik —an administrative unit with

100-532: A year's worth of rainfall on the region over two days. Close to 30,000 people were affected by the floods. Most of the victims lived in the city of Krymsk , 80 km (50 mi) from Krasnodar and 15 km (9 mi) from Novorossiysk , at the foot of a minor mountain range running along the coast of the Black Sea. Eyewitnesses reported that the flood hit the city around 2 a.m. local time on 7 July 2012 when most residents were asleep. The flood wave reached

125-588: Is light. Summers are hot with warm evenings. Sometimes Gelendzhik has experienced big floods as it happened in 2012 ( 2012 Krasnodar Krai floods ). Gelendzhik is served by the Gelendzhik Airport . A new terminal of Gelendzhik Airport was built in December 2021. Gelendzhik is twinned with: Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax The Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax is an ancient Greek periplus (περίπλους períplous , 'circumnavigation') describing

150-731: Is notoriously corrupt, add nothing of substance. The principal manuscript was inaccessible to scholars for over two centuries until the 1830s, when it was bought by the Bibliothèque Nationale of France. The narrative attributed to this "Pseudo-Scylax" simulates a clockwise circumnavigation of the Mediterranean and Black Sea , starting in Iberia and ending in West Africa , beyond the Pillars of Hercules , that mark

175-567: The Astrakhan , Volgograd , Rostov , Moscow and Tula regions, and from the city of Moscow . A day later, the Krasnodar Krai administration said in a statement posted on its website that Russia's regional and federal governments would allocate almost 9 billion rubles ($ 280 million) to restore Krymsk. Oil pipeline operator Transneft said it halted crude shipments out of Novorossiysk , but that its infrastructure in

200-758: The Ottoman Empire . Since the Circassian beauties were usually traded for gold and other commodities before being taken to Turkish seraglios , the market place became known as "Gelendzhik" (from "gelincik"), literally, "little bride" in Turkish Language . In 1831, one of the first forts of the Black Sea Coastal Line was set up at Gelendzhik. At the outbreak of the Crimean War the fort had to be blown up and abandoned, but it

225-906: The Periplus was published by Gerardus Vossius in 1639 and then by John Hudson in his Geographi Graeci Minores . In Paris , the Periplus was published in 1826 by Jean François Gail and in Berlin it was published in 1831 by Rudolf Heinrich Klausen . The Greek texts of Karl Müller (1855) and B. Fabricius (pseudonym of Heinrich Theodor Dittrich , 2nd edition 1878) have been superseded by P. Counillon Pseudo-Skylax: le périple du Pont-Euxin: texte, traduction, commentaire philologique et historique. (Bordeaux, 2004) and G. Shipley, Pseudo-Scylax's Periplus: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Exeter, 2011). 2012 Krasnodar Krai floods The 2012 Krasnodar Krai floods were floods in southwest Russia in early July 2012, mainly in Krasnodar Krai near

250-541: The Straits of Gibraltar . The NW African section is sometimes claimed to have been derived from the earlier Periplus of Hanno the Navigator , but a close comparison makes the differences between the two texts apparent. Rather than the record of a voyage like Hanno 's, or a compilation of eye-witness accounts of voyages, the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax is probably an attempt at a quasi-scientific geographical account of

275-468: The Krymsk district council, Vasily Krutko, was dismissed. In August 2013, a Russian investigation convicted Krutko of negligence. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev set up a commission to help the victims. On 7 July, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the area and held a meeting with the representatives of all the services involved in search operations and tackling the consequences of

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300-552: The aims of the work seems to be to calculate a total sailing length for the coasts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, a geographical undertaking in which Aristotle's pupil Dikaiarchos of Messana went further, perhaps explicitly building upon the work of our unknown author. The Periplus of Scylax , along with other minor ancient Greek geographers, was first published in Augsburg in 1600 by David Hoeschel . In Amsterdam ,

325-627: The allegation as "absolute nonsense", RIA Novosti news agency said. Furthermore, there are no controllable sluice gates in the nearby Neberdzhaevskoe reservoir, thus refuting the allegation. On 14 July, about 2,000 tons of humanitarian aid had been delivered to Krymsk, according to a spokesman for the local emergencies administration. The humanitarian aid included safe drinking water, foodstuffs, bed linen, hygiene items, and children's clothes. Humanitarian aid arrived from Azerbaijan , Belarus , Adygea , Kalmykia , Dagestan , Ingushetia , Kabardino-Balkaria , Karachay-Cherkessia , North Ossetia ,

350-517: The author as "Scylax"' (or "Skylax"), but scholars have proven that this attribution is to be treated as a so-called " pseudepigraphical appeal to authority": Herodotus mentions a Scylax of Caryanda , a Greek navigator who in the late sixth century BC explored the coast of the Indian Ocean on behalf of the Persians . Many details in the work, however, reflect fourth-century BC knowledge of

375-590: The coast of the Black Sea . The equivalent of five months of rain fell overnight in some southern parts of the country according to the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia . One hundred seventy-one people died during the floods. According to the governor of Krasnodar Krai, Aleksandr Tkachyov , "there was nothing of the kind for the last 70 years". The flood was part of the aftermath of an intense storm that hit Krasnodar, dropping almost half

400-426: The disaster, and then left to Gelendzhik which also suffered seriously. Earlier on the same day, Russian Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov said those people whose houses were totally destroyed by the floods will receive 100,000 rubles compensation (about $ 3,000), and that 50,000 rubles ($ 1,500) will be paid to the residents whose dwellings were damaged. Approximately 5,200 homes have been affected by

425-554: The disaster. On 8 July 2012, Putin signed a presidential decree declaring 9 July a day of mourning in Russia for the victims of a bus crash in Ukraine and the devastating floods. The head of the liberal opposition Yabloko party , Sergey Mitrokhin , said on his Twitter feed that local activists had blamed the ferocity of the flood on the opening of sluice gates at a reservoir but Krasnodar's regional administration dismissed

450-563: The height of 7 m (23 ft), submerging many houses to the ceiling and drowning those who could not escape in time. There were also deaths on the coast of the Black Sea in Gelendzhik , a resort, and in Novorossiysk , a port. A low pressure area moved westward through the Black Sea . On July 7, the system dropped 280 mm (11 in) of rainfall in a few hours in parts of southwestern Russia. According to reports,

475-517: The parts of the world accessible to Greeks in the 4th century BC. It can plausibly be associated with philosophical and scientific activities at Athens under Plato 's successors in the Academy ; the author was perhaps directly in contact with Plato's successors and with Aristotle and Theophrastos , in the years leading up to the foundation of Aristotle's school, the Peripatos or Lyceum . One of

500-481: The rainfall totaled 275 mm (10.83 in) of rain over the region, equivalent to three or four months' worth of precipitation in a typical year. The Russian government has acknowledged that it was aware of the rising waters at 10:00 p.m. Friday night but failed to adequately notify the residents of Krymsk of the approaching flood, which arrived at 2:00 a.m. Sirens were sounded and warning issued over loudspeakers but most residents were asleep. The head of

525-572: The region, while the Ghisolfi , a Genoese-Jewish family, had a prominent role in the trade and commerce in Gazaria . During this period the town was named Maurolaca or Mauro Laco , and was considered one of the most important Genoese colonies in the Black Sea. Before Russia secured the coast by the Treaty of Adrianople (1829) , a brisk slave trade had been carried on between the mountaineers and

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550-499: The sea route around the Mediterranean and Black Sea . It probably dates from the mid-4th century BC, specifically the 330s, and was probably written at or near Athens. Its author is often included among the ranks of 'minor' Greek geographers. There is only one manuscript available, which postdates the original work by over 1500 years. The author's name is written Pseudo-Scylax or Pseudo-Skylax , often abbreviated as Ps.-Scylax or Ps.-Skylax. The only extant, medieval manuscript names

575-468: The status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the Town of Gelendzhik is incorporated as Gelendzhik Urban Okrug . Gelendzhik has a borderline humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cfa ) and a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification : Csa ). The climate of Gelendzhik is noticeably drier than Novorossiysk and Tuapse. Winters are mild and snowfall

600-497: The world; since it cannot be by the sixth-century Scylax, its author is habitually referred to as Pseudo-Scylax. There remains one primary manuscript, Parisinus suppl. gr. (Supplément grec) 443 (also known as the Pithou MS after its 16th-century owner, Pierre Pithou ); it dates to the thirteenth century AD and is the original of those upon which the first printed edition of 1600 was based. Two later copies of this manuscript, which

625-623: Was resettled by the Cossacks in 1864, at the conclusion of the Russian-Circassian War , and became known as the stanitsa of Gelendzhiksaya. Town status was granted to Gelendzhik in 1915. During the Soviet period , Gelendzhik was developed as a resort town . It possesses sand beaches, three waterparks , two chairlift lines, and two Orthodox churches (from 1909 and 1913, respectively). The environs of Gelendzhik are noted for

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