Novorossisk, a fortified port on the Black Sea, to the SE. of Anapa in Russian Caucasus; the completion of a projected railway to Tzaritzin on the Volga would make it command the Volga trade. A breakwater and quay were begun in 1890. Pop. 2988.
Novorossisk
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 546
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