Romanovsky Khutor

Romanovsky Khutor grew beside a fortified post on the Kuban, where the river marked part of Russia's Caucasian frontier. The post was established in the late eighteenth century, and a Cossack settlement developed in its neighbourhood. Its name recalled the Don stanitsa of Romanovskaya, from which Cossacks came to serve on the line. A road later linked the settlement with Yekaterinodar and Stavropol, crossing a landscape increasingly shaped by frontier forts and Cossack communities.