Rossosh

Rossosh lies near the meeting of the Rossosh and Chornaya Kalitva rivers, in the Don basin's open forest-steppe. Its name is associated with the branching of the streams. The sloboda is first recorded in a church document of 1721, as settlement spread across the southern lands of the Russian state. River valleys and cultivated fields shaped the district around the village, which belonged to the wider country settled by Ukrainian and Russian communities on the steppe frontier.