Kashary

Kashary lies in the valley of the Olkhovaya, amid the uplands between the Don and the Donets. The settlement was known as Verkhne-Olkhovaya when it first appeared in surviving records in 1790. That year its sixty-two households contained 383 peasants. Lands along the river belonged to the Pozdeyev and Sulin families, who established the sloboda and divided their holdings among their heirs. The Olkhovaya valley gave its earliest recorded name to the community that later became Kashary.