Novo-Alexandrovskoye

Novo-Alexandrovskoye grew on the Rasshevatka, a river of the western Manych basin. In 1804 peasant families from the Voronezh and Kursk districts settled near a frontier redoubt; more followed from central Russia. Originally named Alexandrovskoye for Emperor Alexander I, the village later acquired the prefix “Novo,” or “new.” A wooden church of the Archangel Michael was built in 1828. In 1833 the villagers were assigned to the Cossack line and their village became a stanitsa.