Mikhaylovka

Mikhaylovka lies on the Medveditsa, a tributary of the Don, amid the lands of the Don Cossacks. In 1762 Colonel Mikhail Sebryakov received land here for his service. His family established settlements on the former lands of Kobylyanskaya, including a Mikhaylovka and a later Novo-Mikhaylovka on the left bank of the Medveditsa. Maps of the late eighteenth century show the latter as Mikhail Sebryakov's sloboda. Its name preserves that of the officer whose family shaped settlement along this stretch of river.