Bryukhovetskaya

Bryukhovetskaya stands near the upper reaches of the Albashi on the Kuban plain. It began as one of the kuren settlements of the Black Sea Cossack Host, whose members brought names and traditions from the former Zaporozhian Sich to their new lands north of the Kuban. In the allotment of settlement sites in 1794, the Bryukhovetsky kuren received land on the left side of an old road near the river. Further Cossack families, chiefly from Poltava and Chernihiv, joined the settlement in 1809–1811.