Editing Maykop (section)

==History==
The city gave its name to the early [[Bronze Age]] [[Maykop culture]] after the discovery of a royal burial site there in 1897.<ref>{{cite journal|last= Ivanova|first= Mariya|title= The Chronology of the "Maikop Culture" in the North Caucasus: Changing Perspectives|journal= Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies|year= 2007|volume= II|pages= 7–39|url= https://www.academia.edu/2543641}}</ref>

Following the establishment of a military camp in 1825,<ref>
{{cite book
 | last1 = Potto
 | first1 = Vasiliy Aleksandrovich
 | author-link1 = Vasily Potto
 | title = Кавказская война въ отдѣльныхъ очеркахъ, эпизодахъ, легендахъ и біографіяхъ: Томъ 2-й: Ермоловское время
 | url = https://runivers.ru/lib/book4747/58705/
 | language = ru
 | location = Saint Petersburg
 | publisher = Е. Евдокимов
 | date = 1887
 | edition = 2
 | pages = 527–528
 | access-date = 11 September 2019
 | quote = 23 июня [1825 года] отряд расположился лагерем на реке Сагауше (Белой), против горы Таглек, там, где теперь стоит город Майкоп… 
}}
</ref> the [[Imperial Russian Army]] built a military fort at Maykop in 1857.<ref>{{cite book|author1= James B. Minahan|title= Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations: Ethnic and National Groups Around the World A-Z|date= 30 May 2002|publisher= ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780313076961|page= 38}}</ref>

In 1910 [[petroleum|oil]] deposits were discovered in the vicinity of Maykop.<ref>
{{cite encyclopedia
  | editor-last = Garvin
  | editor-first = James Louis
  | editor-link = James Louis Garvin
  | encyclopedia = The Encyclopædia Britannica
  | title = Petroleum
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=u4YPAQAAIAAJ
  | access-date = 11 September 2019
  | edition = 13
  | year = 1926
  | publisher = The Encyclopædia Britannica Company, ltd.
  | volume = 3
  | quote = The Maikop field in the province of Kuban on the north flank of the Caucasus, northeast of the Black Sea, was discovered in 1910.
}}
</ref> The city was the administrative center of the [[Maykopsky Otdel]] of the [[Kuban Oblast]].

In 1936, Maykop and the surrounding region merged with [[Adyghe Autonomous Oblast]] and became the [[administrative centre]] of the autonomy. The [[Wehrmacht]] occupied Maykop on 10 August 1942 without a fight as a result of a [[Brandenburgers|Brandenburger]] [[commando]] operation. German attempts to re-start oil production in the scorched-earth area proved only minimally successful. On 29 January 1943, the [[Transcaucasian Front]] of the [[Red Army]] re-took the town.<ref>[https://www.soldat.ru/spravka/freedom/1-ssr-4.html Освобождение городов]</ref>

Since 1991 Maykop has served as the capital of the Republic of Adygea in the [[Russian Federation]].