Kanevskaya

Kanevskaya belongs to the settlement history of the Black Sea Cossacks in the Kuban. In 1794 the Cossack host allotted land for its constituent communities, and the Kanev kuren initially drew a site on the Kurka River near Taman. Families moved there in spring, but danger on the frontier led some communities to seek land farther inland. The Kanev Cossacks later settled by the Chelbas River, where their village became part of a new Cossack landscape on the plains south of the Sea of Azov.