Kumylzhenskaya

Kumylzhenskaya takes its name from the Kumylga, which joins the Khopyor amid the wooded floodplain of the Don basin. Cossacks founded their early settlement on the Khopyor's right bank opposite the Kumylga's mouth. Floods and the changing river later led the community to move, and the wooden church of Saint Nicholas was carried from the old stanitsa to the new site. In 1782 the inhabitants sought permission to add a warm church of the Trinity and replace the ageing bell tower.