Khvorostyanka

Khvorostyanka lies on the Chagra, east of the Volga, amid the open country south of Samara. Its foundation is traditionally dated to 1749, when settlement expanded across the river's steppe basin. Landowners acquired estates here, including Vasily Samarin, while fields spread across the fertile ground. Before this expansion, the landscape was a rolling plain with woodland, reed-filled lakes and grassland used by the peoples of the steppe.