Alexeyevskaya

Alexeyevskaya is a Cossack stanitsa on the Buzuluk, a tributary of the Khopyor. In 1700 the ataman Pakhom Sergeyev named it among the Cossack and watch towns on the Buzuluk, Khopyor and Medveditsa. The settlement first stood on the Buzuluk's right bank, but a severe flood in 1764 led its inhabitants to move to the left bank. Such moves were familiar along the rivers of the Don Host, where spring waters repeatedly forced communities to seek safer ground.