Pavlovskaya

Pavlovskaya lies on the steppe plain north of the Kuban. Its history is tied to the Black Sea Cossacks, who moved to the region in the 1790s and established settlements named for their kurens. The Pavlovsky kuren was among them. In 1822 its inhabitants were moved to land belonging to a wealthy livestock owner named Ason, establishing the settlement at the site associated with Pavlovskaya.