Verkhnebakanskii

an urban-type settlement in Krasnodar Krai, RSFSR, on the Krasnodar-Novorossiisk high-way. Railroad station (Tonnel’naia) 18 km northwest of Novorossiisk. Population, 6,700 (1969). Verkhnebakanskii has two cement plants, which operate on the basis of local marl and gaize deposits.