- Abrau-Dyurso
Abrau-Dyurso or Abrau-Durso ( _ru. Абрау-Дюрсо) is a village ("selo") under the jurisdiction of the city of
Novorossiysk ,Krasnodar Krai ,Russia . It is located on the shore ofLake Abrau , km to mi|14 west of Novorossiysk. It should not be confused with thekhutor ofDyurso ,Resolution #2741-P of the Legislative Assembly of Krasnodar Krai ofDecember 19 ,2006 "On Establishing the Borders of the City of Novorossiysk of Krasnodar Krai and of the Administrative-Territorial Units Under Its Jurisdiction". Items 4.8 (Abrau-Dyurso) and 4.10 (Dyurso). ( _ru. Постановление Законодательного Собрания Краснодарского края от 19 декабря 2006 г. № 2741-П "Об установлении границ города Новороссийск Краснодарского края и подчинённых ему административно-территориальных единиц". Пп. 4.8 (Абрау-Дюрсо) и 4.10 (Дюрсо).)] which is located km to mi|4 to the south, where theDyurso River enters theBlack Sea , and which is sometimes incorrectly considered to be a part of Abrau-Dyurso. [http://www.idisuda.ru/article.php?s=49 Idisuda.ru] _ru. Абрау-Дюрсо — два посёлка или один?] Population: ru-census2002|2982|; su-census1989|2792|. Abrau-Dyurso is the center of Russia's most important wine-growing region.The settlement was founded on
November 25 ,1870 as a royal winery which was to provide wine for theTsar 's household. These plans were brought to fruition twenty-one years later, when PrinceLeo Galitzine , renowned for his his Crimean vineyards ofMassandra andNovy Svet , was appointed Surveyor of Imperial Vineyards at Abrau-Dyurso. It was he who brought to Russia a team of skilled winemakers from France. By 1897, Abrau-Dyurso boasted champagne cellars containing in excess of 13,000 bottles.The
Russian Revolution of 1917 brought an end to Abrau-Dyurso's prosperity, if only for a short time. The French specialists fled Russia, but their work was continued by their Russian apprentices. Throughout the Soviet period, Abrau-Dyurso was reputed for its sparkling wine, which was marketed under the name of "Sovetskoye Shampanskoye " ("Soviet Champagne"), or "champagne for the people". As of 2005, the local winery produced 5,800,000 bottles of champagne. There is a museum of sparkling wines on its grounds.In August 2002, the local earth dam located upstream of the Dyurso River collapsed, [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2181169.stm "Russian flood region on alert"] . BBC.] washing away some of the grape fields in the Dyurso Valley. Currently Abrau-Dyurso does not grow its own wine grapes, but imports them from other locations.Fact|date=February 2007
References
External links
* [http://www.abraudurso.ru Official website of the Abrau-Dyurso wineries]
* [http://abrau.durso.googlepages.com/ Photos from Abrau-Durso]
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