Buturlinovka

Buturlinovka grew on the Osered, a tributary of the Don, as a sloboda on the estate of Alexander Buturlin. Its eighteenth-century settlers included people from Ukrainian lands and peasants from estates near Smolensk and Moscow. The settlement was also called Petrovka after Buturlin's son. Roads crossed its river valley toward Pavlovsk and Novokhopyorsk, while watermills ground grain along the Osered. The estate and its farming households formed part of the expansion of settlement into the Don forest-steppe.