ANAPA, a port on the Black sea, north of Novorossisk, in the North Caucasian area of the R.S.F.S.R., 44° 58' N. 18' E. It was formerly the scene of struggles between the Turks and Rus sians, until it became Russian in 1829. The fortifications were dis mantled by the Russians during the Crimean war (1855). Pop. 13,3 20 (1926). The district has an experimental station for the encouragement of vine-growing and wine manufacture. Anapa is on the site of the ancient Gorgippia.
See M. I. Rostovtsev, Iranians and Greeks in S. Russia, with a bibl. (Oxford, 1922).