Kletskaya

Kletskaya is a Don Cossack settlement in the great bend of the river. Its early town stood near the floodplain, where spring waters repeatedly threatened the houses. The community is known by the seventeenth century and, like other Cossack towns on the Don, moved as the river and its floods made old sites difficult to inhabit. A wooden church was built in 1730. Later the stanitsa shifted again, seeking higher and more secure ground beside the river.