Divnomorskoye, Russia

History

Up to the middle of 19th century on the place of modern village there was Circassian aul Mezyb (Adyg. Mezyb – ‘many woods’).

Employees of a city museum in the Rostov regional archive have found the report of the chief of the Black Sea coastal line general N. N. Raevsky where already mentioned False Gelendzhik in connection with construction of fortification in Gelendzhik in 1831.

Historians believe that this name could have arisen in the 1830-40s, when the captains of ships in the dark, seeing the dim lights, took this small bay for Gelendzhik and mistakenly came here, dropping anchor. According to the 1926 census, it had a population of 301, 64.8% Ukrainian and 21.3% Russian.

The official name Falshivyj Gelendzhik (Фальшивый Геленджик, "Fake Gelendzhik") the settlement was more than 100 years and was renamed Divnomorskoye only in 1964. It was renamed at the request of the residents, a competition was announced for the best name for the village.

On 10 March 2004 during the transformation of municipal districts of Krasnodar Krai, the village Divnomorskoye was included in the Divnomorskoye rural district of the resort town of Gelendzhik.

From the History section of Divnomorskoye on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.