Russia 1942 Battle of Caucasus (3) Deutsche Luftwaffe German Air Force Combat, Noworossiysk Kuban

164 Russia 1942 Battle of Caucasus (Part 3) Deutsche Luftwaffe German Air Force Combat, Noworossiysk Новороссийск Kuban Kaukasus Heeregruppe A German History Archive Novorossiysk (Russian: Новороссийск) is a Russian port city in Krasnodar Krai. It is located on the Black Sea on the western foothills of the Caucasus Mountains and has 241, 952 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). The city has had a new twokilometerlong waterfront since 2006. Novorossiysk is a university town, cultural center and an important business location. It is also important as a naval base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet. On the site of today s city, a colony called Bata was already founded by the ancient Greeks. The place became a Genoese trading settlement in the 12th and 13th centuries and was later conquered by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans built a fortress named Sudjuk Kale at the mouth of the Zemes River to conduct slave trade f br, br,