Petrovskoye

Petrovskoye stands on the Kalaus among the hills of the northern Caucasian foreland. Founded in the second half of the eighteenth century, it grew near an existing Tatar settlement. Local tradition links the village's name to an early settler, Petro Pisarenko, who came from the Zaporizhian country. By 1789 Petrovskoye was recorded as a village in the Alexandrov district. Its position on the river placed it among the communities forming as Russian settlement expanded across the steppe.