Privolnoye

The plains around Privolnoye lie north of the Caucasus, in the open country between the Manych and the northern foothills. The long postal route toward Tiflis crossed this steppe, and in 1803 a station on the road became the nucleus of nearby Peschanokopskoye. Farmers gradually settled around the station and cultivated the black soils. Privolnoye itself belongs to a later stage of settlement, after the age of the old frontier forts and post roads.