Kalininskaya

The locality later called Kalininskaya began as Popovichevskoye, a settlement of the Black Sea Cossack Host. Founded in 1794 near the Black Sea defensive cordon, it carried the name of the Popovichevsky kuren, preserving the identity of a military community within the new Kuban settlements. The original location lay close to a troubled frontier.

In spring 1808 its inhabitants moved to a safer position on the right bank of the Ponura River. Buildings and household possessions had to move with them. In 1809 they reassembled their wooden Epiphany church, brought by wagon from the former settlement. The transfer joined military security with the reconstruction of community life: a new riverside site retained both the old name and a material part of its religious centre. This was the settlement's early nineteenth-century landscape, long before the later Kalininskaya name.