WebFormation history of the Kuban Cossack Host. Although Cossacks lived in the region prior to the late 18th century (one theory of Cossack origin traces their lineage to the ancient Kasog peoples who populated the Kuban in 9th-13th centuries), the landscape prevented permanent habitation.Modern Kuban Cossacks claim 1696 as their foundation year, …

WebThe Treaty of Pereyaslav of 1654 led to Ukraine becoming a protectorate of Tsarist Russia.This resulted in increased Ukrainian immigration to Russia, initially to Sloboda Ukraine but also to the Don lands and the area of the Volga river. There was a significant migration to Moscow, particularly by church activists, priests and monks, scholars and …

WebThe Kuban Bridgehead (German: Kuban-Brückenkopf), also known as the "Goth's head position" (Gotenkopfstellung), was a German military position on the Taman Peninsula, Russia, between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.Existing from January to October 1943, the bridgehead formed after the Germans were pushed out of the Caucasus.The heavily …

WebDagestan (/ ˌ d æ ɡ ɪ ˈ s t æ n,-ˈ s t ɑː n / DAG-i-STA(H)N; Russian: Дагеста́н, IPA: [dəɡʲɪˈstan]), officially the Republic of Dagestan (Russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, romanized: Respúblika Dagestán), is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea.It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and …

WebThe Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian ethno-religious culture of originally Turkic groups of Tatars from the greater Ponto–Caspian steppe region of Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine. They mainly inhabited sparsely populated areas in the Dnieper, Don, Terek, and Ural river basins, and played an important role in the …

WebThe Transnistria War (Romanian: Războiul din Transnistria; Russian: Война в Приднестровье, romanized: Voyna v Pridnestrovye) was an armed conflict that broke out on 2 November 1990 in Dubăsari (Russian: Дубосса́ры, romanized: Dubossary) between pro-Transnistria (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic [PMR]) forces, including the …

WebHeinz Schmidt (20 April 1920 – 5 September 1943) was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 173 enemy aircraft shot down in 712 combat missions. All of his victories were claimed over the Eastern Front.. Born in Bad Homburg, Schmidt volunteered for military service in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany in 1938. . …

WebArmavir (Russian: Армави́р) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kuban River.Population: 187,177 (2021 Census); 188,832 (2010 Census); 193,964 (2002 Census); 160,983 (1989 Census). As of 2020, the city has a population of 188,960, while the agglomeration has a population of 207,570. Armavir was formerly the second …

WebIt is not clear when the first Cossack communities on the Lower Dnieper began to form. There are signs and stories of similar people living in the Eurasian Steppe as early as the 12th century. At that time they were not called Cossacks, since cossack is a Turkic word meaning a "free man" which shares its etymology with the ethnic name "Kazakh".It later …

WebKuban (Russian and Ukrainian: Кубань; Adyghe: Пшызэ) is a historical and geographical region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, the Volga Delta and the Caucasus, and separated from the Crimean Peninsula to the west by the Kerch Strait. Krasnodar Krai is often referred to as Kuban, both officially …