Peschanokopskoye

Peschanokopskoye lies beside the small Peschanka stream on an open plain north of the Caucasus. It began in 1803 around a post station on the great road to Tiflis. Settlers from Russia gradually made homes near the station, and the village grew amid black-soil fields exposed to the strong eastern winds. Its position on the postal road connected the farming community with traffic moving between the Russian interior and the Caucasus.