International Black Sea Club (IBSC) Board Meeting

May 28-29, 2011 Galati, Romania

I. The representatives of the following member-cities of the International Black Sea Club Board (hereinafter referred to as the IBSC) took part in the IBSC Board Meeting:

Galati

Kavala

Kherson

Nikolaev

Odessa

Taganrog

Varna

Mr. R.Amerkhanov – Chairman of Non-commercial partnership “IBSC Business Council”

The representatives of Batumi, Mariupol, Trabzon and Trieste – the IBSC Board member-cities, were absent.

Invited persons: Mr. R.Kovachev – IBSC Secretary General, Mr. Kahu Gelu – Consultant of Galati Black Sea Club (GBSC), Mr. Yudzhin Zaharia – Director of Department of Galati markets, Dr. Nikolay Bakalbasa – professor of University of Lower Danube.

II. After discussions on the items of the Agenda, the IBSC Board

DECIDED:

1.      To take into consideration the opening speech of Mr. George Cubasa, Galati Black Sea Club Chairman.

2.      To take into consideration the welcome speech of Mayor of Galati Mr. Dumitru Nicolae.

3.      To take into consideration the opening speech of Mayor of Kavala Mr. Konstantinos Simitsis.

4.      To make the following changes to the Draft Agenda of the IBSC Board Meeting:

- it. 11 – “Adoption of the Agenda of XXII Assembly of IBSC (October, 1-2, 2011, Azov)” to change on “Discussion about the Draft Agenda of XXII Assembly of IBSC (October, 1-2, 2011, Azov)”;

- to remove it. 14 “Approval of IBSC budget for the economic year 2011″.

To approve the Agenda of IBSC Board Meeting in Galati with all changes (in English).

5.      To take into consideration the Activity Reports of the Managing Board, the Executive Directorate and Controlling Commission since the last XXI Assembly.

6.      To take into consideration the report of  Mr. R.Kovachev, IBSC Secretary General.

7.      To create two working groups for participation in the European program “Black Sea” (the application deadline – September 2011):

a)     Galati, Kavala, Nikolaev – to work on project proposal “Non-conventional energy systems – Ecology”, the group’s leader is Kavala;

b)     Kherson, Odessa, Varna – to work on project proposal “Navigation”, the group’s leader is Varna.

To recommend adding of new members to the abovementioned groups.

To hold the meeting of the working groups in Varna at the end of June, 2011.

8.      To approve the report of Mr. R. Amerkhanov, Chairman of Non-commercial partnership “IBSC Business Council”, concerning the activity of IBSC BC since the last meeting in Kavala in September, 2011.

9.      To offer to IBSC Assembly to optimize the quantity of IBSC Board members.

10. To submit for consideration of the XXII IBSC Assembly the issues regarding the elections of new IBSC President.

To take into consideration the proposal of the city of Galati about the application of the city of Galati for Presidency.

11.  To hold the IBSC Board Meeting before the IBSC Assembly in Azov for approving of the XXII IBSC Assembly Agenda.

12. To take into account the information of Mr. R. Kovachev and Mr. Kahu Gelu concerning the interest of the cities: Sinop, Silivri, Tulcha, Braila, regions of Kahul and Kantemir to become members of IBSC.

For Galati                                                                               For Kavala

_____________ D. Cubasa                                                           ____________ K.Simitsis

For Kherson                                                                          For Nikolaev

______________ V.Saldo                                                  ____________ T.Krynytska

For Odessa                                                                           For Taganrog

___________ O.Bryndak                                                    ____________ N.Fedyanin

For Varna                                                                               For IBSC BC

____________ M.Kulikov                                                   _____________ R.Amerkhanov

It was the fifth contest traditionally supported by the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. And the winner in the nomination “the best head of municipality in 2010″ is Mayor of Taganrog Nikolay Fedyanin!

The contest of municipal corporations is aimed at finding the best specialists and the leading practices in municipal government, at publicizing the innovative experience in tackling the problems of local importance, and at fostering business activity among the representatives of local governments and other municipal bodies.

Area: 1956 km2

Geographical position: Temruk district is situated on Tamanskij peninsula, occupying the western edge of Kubanskaja plain.  It is washed by the Black and the Azov seas. It borders on Slavjansk, Krimsk and Anapa on land. It borders on Ukrain on Kerchenskij strait. The most part of the district is occupied by flood plains, a large delta of the river Kuban, plavni. The length of sea shore is 250 km, 220 km of sea shore are sand beaches.

Historic information: Taman is a very ancient land. Over two and a half  thousand years a civilization and statehood are present here. Historic-archaeological values are recognized on a world scale. (the artefacts found on the territory of its region have world’s cultural values).
Bright page of history is a migration of Zaporozhian Cossacks to Taman. The beginning of this event is dated to the 25th of August 1792. The opening up of the Kubanskaja land by Cossacks began from this territory. In 1794 the first church was built in stanitsa Taman.

Economics: The basis of economics of Temruk district is formed by port activ-ity, resort branch and agribusiness. The climate of Tamanskij peninsula is advantageous for growing grapes. That’s why wine-growing and wine-making branches are developed actively in Temruk district.

Things to see: There are “the military hills” and the local natural history museums in Temruk; there is  the Tamanskij archaeological museum, the Lermontov’s house-museum, the ethnographic complex “Ataman”, “ The fishing settlement”, an ostrich farm, a lotus valley, mud volcanoes, wine-tasting rooms, wine-SPA in stanitsa Taman. Moreover a large number of festivals and holidays are conducted in our district: such as “The Tamanskaja vine”, a bike-festival “The Azov wave”, “The watermelon paradise”, “KUBANA”, “The wild mint”, “The legends of Taman”, the wine harvest fes-tival and others.

IBSC: Member to the IBSC since 2010.

History

Stavropol was founded in 1777 following the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 as a military encampment and designated as a city in 1785. Prince Grigory Potemkin, who founded Stavropol as one of ten fortresses built between Azov and Mozdok at the request of Catherine II of Russia, played a leading role in the creation of the city. Don Cossacks, particularly those from the Khopersky Regiment, settled the area in and around the cities of Stavropol and Georgievsk with a mission to defend borders of the Empire.

The name “Stavropol” is a Russian rendition of a fictitious Greek name, Stauropolis (historically the name of an unrelated archbishopric in Caria, a Roman province in present Anatolia), meaning “The city of the Cross”. According to a legend soldiers found a huge cross made out of stone when they were building the fortress in the future city location.[citation needed]

Alexander I in 1809, invited several Armenian families to settle by the fortress, in order to encourage trade in the region.

Stavropol’s strategic location aided in the Russian Empire’s conquest of the Caucasus. By the early 19th century the city grew into a busy trade center of the Northern Caucasus. In 1843 an Episcopal see of the Russian Orthodox Church was established in Stavropol and in 1847 the city became the administrative center of the gubernia (governorate) with the same name.

Well-known Russians who have visited or resided in Stavropol include: Generals Suvorov, Alexey Yermolov and Nikolay Raevsky, the poets Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, who were in political disfavor, the surgeon Nikolay Pirogov, Alexander Griboedov, Leo Tolstoy, and the national poet of Ossetia, Kosta Khetagurov.

During the Russian Civil War the city changed hands several times and finally was captured by the Red Army from the Volunteer Army of general Anton Denikin on January 29, 1920. The city was renamed Voroshilovsk on the 5th of May, 1935, after Kliment Voroshilov, but returned to its original name in 1943.[6] The Great Patriotic War took a heavy toll on the city and between August 3, 1942 and January 21, 1943 Stavropol was occupied by the Germans. Since 1946 natural gas has been extracted near the city; later on, a pipeline to Moscow was built to supply it. The first and only executive president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was born in Stavropol Krai (region) and spent several years working in the city of Stavropol as the head of the Krai’s administration.

Modern city

Stavropol has a theater and a football team called Dynamo Stavropol. The main educational institutions of the town are: Stavropol State University, North-Caucasus State Technical University, Agrarian University and Stavropol State Medical Academy. The area of Russia in which Stavropol resides is very mountainous, placing the city in the midst of the northern Caucasus mountain range. The city has one the biggest and best city parks in Russia. Stavropol’s economy focuses on the production of automobiles, furniture, and construction equipment and materials. The city relies on air transport (Shpakovskoye airport), rail, and highway connections to other Russian cities.

Stavropol’s population includes a significant number of refugees escaping the strife or instability of the Russian border regions and Caucasus nations to the south.