Nagavskaya

Nagavskaya grew from the Cossack town of Nagavkin on the Don. Its early houses and earthworks belonged to the chain of small river strongholds that marked the lands of the Don Host. Ataman Frol Minayev named Nagavkin among the Cossack towns reported to Moscow in the seventeenth century. As at many Don settlements, the river's shifting channels and floods shaped the community's choice of sites, and the stanitsa was moved more than once during its long history.