Population of Anapa: number, composition, demography

A small resort town of Anapa, located on the Black Sea coast, is known almost to every resident of the former USSR. This is the famous children's health resort, balneological and climatic health resort. The population of Anapa has now grown by more than 20% compared with the Soviet period. This can be explained by a number of reasons, including demographic factors, which along with other factors influenced growth.

Ancient period

It happened historically that different peoples lived on this territory. About two thousand years ago there lived the Sinds, and in place of the modern city was the ancient ancient city of Sindica (Sindh Harbor).

In the XIV century, the city was a Genoese colony of Mapa, here lived Genoese and Jews. It was the Genoese who built strong fortifications, which can be seen on the ancient Tarot maps of Visconti as the fortress of Mapa. In the same XIV century Tamerlane went by "fire and sword" to these places, who, having ruined everything, left fortifications unscathed.

Ottoman period

More than 300 years, the territory of modern Anapa was under the rule of the Ottomans, at this time the name of the city appears, more precisely the fortress. It began to be called Anapskaya. In written sources of that time we see that the indigenous population of Anapa was the Circassian tribe shegake, which in Turkish means "seaside residents". The whole territory was under the rule of the Ottomans, who collected tribute from them.

After the Russian-Turkish war of 1784, the Turks and Nogais who fled from the Crimea, Taman and roamed the steppes, found a refuge in the Anapa fortress, which by that time had become the city of Anapa. Turkey engaged in the slave trade and, raiding the Russian possessions, drove their inhabitants into slavery. The Anapa port was the center of Russian slave trade.

In 1782, a fortress was built here, which resisted Russian troops for 28 years, who waged war against the slave-traders of Turks and periodically seized the fortress during a series of Russian-Turkish wars that took place during this period. They came to the aid of Don and Kuban Cossacks.

Anapa in Russia

At the end of the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829 the fortress was annexed to the Russian Empire. This is done in accordance with the Treaty of Adrianople. In 1846, at the behest of Nicholas I, she received the status of a city. The population of Anapa became mainly Russian, as the Turks and Circassians left for Turkey. Twenty years later, in 1866, the first sanatorium was built in the city, which laid the foundation for the development of the resort city.

Ethnic composition

According to statistics, in 2016, 176 210 people lived in the urban district, including Anapa's population of 73410 people and in rural areas - 102 800 people. According to the 2010 census, more than 86% of the inhabitants of Anapa are Russian, about 7% are Armenians, Ukrainians - 2%, and 5% - other nationalities.

The city is inhabited by Byelorussians, Tatars, Jews, Greeks, Georgians and Gypsies. In recent years, statistics have noted the growth of migrants at the expense of the population of the former Soviet republics: Uzbeks, Tajiks, Kirghiz, Azerbaijanis.

Demography

Annually, the population of Anapa increases by an average of 3000 people. And this is a natural increase, which indicates the excess of the birth rate over mortality. This demographic situation has been observed in Anapa for several years, which indicates an increase in the level of the socio-economic situation.

According to statistics, in recent years, the number of registered marriages has increased compared to the number of divorces, which undoubtedly shows an increase in the status of the family and the overall economic state.

Employment

The overwhelming majority of the urban and partly rural population of Anapa is engaged in tourism, since the city's infrastructure is closely connected with this type of economic activity. A lot of sanatoriums, boarding houses, recreation centers, various kinds of hotels require a huge number of staff.

Anapa received the title of the world's first balneological resort. The demand for the city as a resting place has increased significantly, along with this the number of visitors has been increasing from year to year, leading to the fact that the employment of the population of Anapa in the sphere of services and public catering is getting high.

The city of Anapa is a federal resort that annually hosts millions of tourists, therefore it is a huge market for agricultural, food and industrial products of the Kuban Territory and the whole of Russia as a whole. Therefore, a large number of the population of Anapa is associated with trade.

The population of the suburbs of Anapa works in agriculture. It grows fruits, vegetables, is engaged in viticulture and processing of these products. The winery works in the city.

Transport

In Anapa there is a large airport, which daily receives planes from all over the country. The city is connected with many cities by the railway. Trains arrive at the railway station. A large number of buses leave daily for different ends of the Krasnodar Territory and the country. In connection with the events in Ukraine and the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, it was the city of Anapa that became the transfer point for a single ticket to the Crimea, through which bus routes to the catamaran and ferry pass.

In the city there are buses on 25 routes, except for them, a large number of fixed-route taxis operate on these routes. A part of the city's population is involved in transport and its maintenance.