Dzhubga is a seaside resort settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

 in Tuapsinsky District

Tuapsinsky District

Tuapsinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the thirty-eight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Its administrative center is the town of Tuapse . District's population:...

 of Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai

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, Russia

Russia

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, located 57 kilometres (35.4 mi) west of Tuapse

Tuapse

Tuapse is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south of Gelendzhik and north of Sochi. It serves as the administrative center of Tuapsinsky District, although administratively it is separate from it...

. Population:

The name originated from the indigenous people of Dzhubga, the Shapsug, who are a subgroup of the Adyghe

Adyghe people

The Adyghe or Adygs , also often known as Circassians or Cherkess, are in origin a North Caucasian ethnic groupwho were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century, especially after the Russian–Circassian War of 1862.Adyghe people mostly speak Adyghe and most...

. Dzhubga means "winds" or "the valley of winds".

The settlement was established in 1864 on the site of a former Shapsug village as the Cossack stanitsa

Stanitsa

Stanitsa is a village inside a Cossack host . Stanitsas were the primary unit of Cossack hosts.Historically, the stanitsa was a unit of economic and political organisation of the Cossack peoples primarily in the southern regions of the Russian Empire.Much of the land was held in common by the...

of Dzhubgskaya . It took its name from the Dzhubga River which enters the Dzhubga Bay of the Black Sea

Black Sea

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Dzhubga is the starting point of the M27 highway

M27 highway (Russia)

The Russian route M27 is a Russian federal highway, a mountain highway that runs along the coast of the Black Sea in Krasnodar Krai from Novorossiysk through Gelendzhik, Tuapse, and Greater Sochi to Adler. The road terminates at Russia's border with Georgia....

. It is connected to the krai

Krai

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's administrative center, Krasnodar

Krasnodar

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, by a 108 km-long highway that runs northward, passing through Adygeysk

Adygeysk

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 and Goryachy Klyuch

Goryachy Klyuch

Goryachy Klyuch , also known as Psekups is a town and a balneological resort in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Psekups River south of Krasnodar. Population: 20,000 .Goryachy Klyuch was granted town status in 1965....

. This proximity to a major city makes Dzhubga a popular holiday destination.

In June 2007, Eni

Eni

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 and Gazprom

Gazprom

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 disclosed the South Stream

South Stream

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 project whereby a 900-km-long offshore natural gas pipeline with annual capacity of 31 cubic kilometres (7.4 cu mi) is planned to cross the Black Sea from Dzhubga to Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

, en route to Italy

Italy

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 and Austria

Austria

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