Arkhipo-Osipovka is a rural locality and a Black Sea resort under the jurisdiction of the Town of Gelendzhik in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Arkhipo-Osipovka is located 50 kilometers away from the city of Gelendzhik. This place has one of the softest climates on the Russian sea coast. Population: 7,853 ; 8,066 ; 7,242 .The settlement on the shore of the Vulan Bay originated as the Cossack stanitsa of Vulanovskaya in 1864. Some twenty-five years later, it 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. Arkhipo-Osipovka had urban-type settlement status u...
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