Endless sea open spaces and a high hilly shore that opens the endless and mysterious expanses of the Kuban steppe. Taman – Blessed Earth. The Silk Road, and the path of Andrew the First -Called, passed here, many nations lived here. Ataman, founded by ancient Greeks, is a village with all the attributes of Cossack life: huts, church and guard towers, grew in a short time, as if coming from the paintings of old masters. In this place, noisy streets where friendly residents meet you, bread and salt are prepared everywhere ..
Ataman is a whole Kuban in a reduced form. History itself lives here. It is customary to come to the village with families in order to truly plunge into the truth of Kuban life, touch history, eat real borscht, dumplings, dance and sing at a Cossack wedding, and wave a real combat checker of the Cossack.
Taman has access to two seas with a striking difference, black lighter and Azov dark blue. You can pay attention to this as soon as you enter the Tuzla braid, which is located in the village of Ataman.
Russia’s power in its multinationality and variety of cultures. Kuban is a house of more than a hundred nationalities. Here, in Ataman, the heart of the Kuban is beating, at present the heart of the entire North Caucasus. Taman has always been the center of attraction for various peoples and nationalities and the intersection of world cultures. It was here that the Cossack ancestors appeared to stay in the Kuban forever.
What is Ataman? Masterpieces of people’s craftsmen, bright colors, voiced tunes, and most importantly, happy smiling faces of people – this is what the village of Ataman is. Today, Ataman is the only open -air ethnic group of such large sizes in Russia. Here, the paintings of the past are truly come to life, Cossack weddings are played, invited to the feast. Potter, woodcarmers and blacksmiths work in neighborhood.
Every year, interest in festivals held on the territory of the village is growing. The glory of which has already stepped far beyond the borders of the Krasnodar Territory. The number of tourist trips over the past 2 years has increased three times, which means that the desire to know the domestic history does not fade away, but grows and progresses. But the interest of foreign tourists pulled up. Agro – and ethno -tourism is gaining strength around the world. Here ataman is not behind. And the Taman Peninsula still stores a huge number of secrets and riddles, it is not for nothing that it is called Russian Atlantis.
