Levokumskoye

The country around Levokumskoye lies along the lower Kuma, where the river leaves the Caucasian foothills for the dry Caspian steppe. Farther upstream, the Golden Horde city of Majar flourished beside the Kuma in the fourteenth century. Its roads connected the Volga lands with the Caucasus and the Black Sea. The river's lower valley continued through open pastoral country, long before the later village of Levokumskoye was established on its banks.