Rozdory

Rozdory lies on the right bank of the Nyzhnia Tersa in the Dnipro steppe. A local tradition attributes its name to a Cossack called Rozdora, said to have established winter quarters beside the river. The documented settlement was founded in 1778 by Mykhailo Karabin on land granted to him by Catherine II. Its fields and river valley became part of the expanding pattern of agricultural settlement in the former Zaporozhian country.