Machekha

Machekha lies in the forest-steppe of the Khopyor and Buzuluk country, where Cossacks and settlers from Ukrainian lands established villages along the southern frontier. Local tradition connects its name with migrants from a village of the same name near Poltava. The settlement's history reaches back to the seventeenth century, when the Don river communities were expanding along their tributaries. The name carried a memory of the settlers' former home into the new country.