Milyutinskaya

The steppe around Milyutinskaya lies along the Gnilaya, amid the rivers and floodplains between the Don and the Donets. The Gnilaya, Berezovaya and Rossosh cross open country once used by the nomadic peoples of the southern steppe. Settlement in these valleys grew in the later eighteenth century as the Don frontier changed. The Cossack stanitsa of Milyutinskaya itself was founded only after the period of the old frontier.