Novonikolayevsky

The country around Novonikolayevsky lies on the Khopyor plain, among the steppe lakes and river valleys of the Don Cossack lands. Before the later settlement arose, several lakes occupied its site. Along the Khopyor, Cossack towns and their farmsteads made use of the river route to the Don. Their communities endured the suppression of the Bulavin rebellion in the early eighteenth century and later took part in the region's growing trade.