Chertkovo

The country around Chertkovo lies between the upper Don and Donets, where steppe rivers run south through the Cossack frontier. In the early eighteenth century Russian authorities directed settlers of the Ostrogozhsk regiment toward the Aidar and Boguchar valleys, reorganizing communities after the Bulavin revolt. These river lands were part of a region in which Cossack service and settlement expanded over generations. The settlement of Chertkovo itself belongs to a later age.