Is it true that Anapa was deprived of the status of the city?

At the end of May 2024, information spread on the Internet that Anapa will cease to be considered a city and acquire the status of the municipal district. We checked whether this is so.

May 30, 2024 press service of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory reportedthat the status of Anapa brought into line with federal law and endowed the resort with the status of the municipal district. After that, dozens of Russian media (for example, RBC, Lenta.ru, "Gazeta.ru" RIA "News" And "Moscow Komsomolets») Published notes with headlines that Anapa was deprived of the status of the city. Such a transformation outraged many users social networks And forums: alone notedthat Anapa is not just a city, but The city of military glory, others complained that now the Anapans may not count on the “benefits of civilization”, which are usually available to city residents. In Telegram, the news about the alleged change in the status of Anapa shared channels "The ax live"(2.7 million views at the time of writing this analysis),"Ax 18+"(1.9 million)," "Live broadcast"(770 000),"VPSh"(380,000) and many others, and the total number of views of publications on this topic, according to TGSTAT, exceeded 6 million.

Krasnodar Territory Includes 426 municipalities. Until May 30, 2024, they included seven urban districts: Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, city resort city, hot key, resort city of Sochi, Armavir and Anapa resort city. At the same time, for example, the city district of Krasnodar and the city of Krasnodar are two different municipalities, and the city of Krasnodar is the administrative center of the corresponding city ​​district. Similarly, the city of Anapa is an administrative center Curotor of Anapa.

In 1994, the city of Anapa Combined with the Anapa district to the subject called "Anaapa resort", and two years later Rename This is a municipality in the resort city of Anapa, assigning him the status of the city district. The district included 52 settlements, including the city of Anapa, while all of them retained their status of individual administrative-territorial units. On the presented below map Anapa resort city resort is indicated by the Anapa district, dark brown-directly the city of regional subordination of Anapa, and with light brown-three rural districts, which Enter in its composition.

In recent years, many Russian regions Seeking To simplify the local government system and move on to a less confusing model, having transformed their municipal areas into urban districts. At the same time, the predominance of sparsely populated territories or territories in such a district often ignored, where the majority of the population adhered to a rural way of life. Forced transformation of municipal areas brought To the emergence of urban districts in Russia, in which there were no cities or urban settlements.

May 1, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed The law that established three new criteria for assigning the territory of the status of the city district: 

1. At least two -thirds of the population should be urban, that is, to live in cities or other urban -type settlements;
2. The area of ​​rural territories and territories intended for the development of social, transport and other infrastructure should not exceed the area of ​​the territories of cities or urban settlements by more than doubled;
3. In the territory of the urban district, population density should exceed the average population density in Russia by at least five times.

City districts that did not meet these criteria were supposed to receive a new status of the municipal district until January 1, 2025.

Of these three criteria of the city district, the resort city of Anapa corresponded only to the latter: by data for 2023, the population density there was 208 people/km², which is 24 times higher than the average density Russian population (8.5 people/km²). But according to the remaining two criteria, the resort city of Anapa "did not reach" to the city district: only 40% of the population It lived in cities, and the area of ​​rural territories is 16 times exceeded The area of ​​the only city in the district is Anapa.

That is why the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory decided change The status of the district from the city to the municipal. At the same time, the statuses of all 52 subjects included in it remained the same, and the city of Anapa continues to be the city of regional subordination. About the same wrote The chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory Yuri Burlachko in his Telegram channel: “In simple words, the resort city of Anapa, who has loved the resort city, will remain a resort city. And only in official documents will the complex name "Municipal education municipal district of the resort of Anapa of the Krasnodar Territory" will contain. "

Thus, allegations of the deprivation of Anapa, the status of the city is incorrect. The administrative-territorial unit in the Krasnodar Territory, which earlier It was called “The municipal formation of the city district of the resort city of Anapa” will now be called “Municipal Education Municipal District of Anapa city resort”. This transformation does not affect the statuses of 52 entities that enter the municipality: a district called “Curota Curota Anapa” will continue to be called, and Anapa will not only remain its administrative center, but also retain the status of the city.

Photo on the cover: Wikimedia Commons

Not true

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