Novopavlovsk

The country around Novopavlovsk lies by the Kura, near the northern foothills of the Caucasus. In 1777 Russian troops and Cossacks began building the fortress of Saint Paul on the river's right bank as part of the Azov–Mozdok defensive line. Families of the Volga Cossack regiment settled beside it in the following years. The stanitsa of Pavlovskaya later moved to the Malka in 1829 or 1830; Novopavlovsk itself arose only after this earlier frontier period.