Belaya Glina

Belaya Glina, “White Clay,” takes its name from the pale clay dug locally for whitewashing houses. According to local tradition, the peasant Ryaboshapka came from the Voronezh country and established a farmstead here in 1820. New settlers followed into the open steppe, where reeds grew thickly along the river. By 1830 the farmstead had become a village, one of the farming communities spreading across the northern Caucasian plain.