Starominskaya

Starominskaya stands by the Sosyka River on the plains north of the Kuban. Founded in 1794, it was one of the first forty kuren settlements of the Black Sea Cossacks in their new lands. The settlers carried the names and traditions of their former Zaporozhian communities into a region recently brought under Russian rule. Along the small river they established homes and fields, while the grasslands around them remained part of the broader frontier between the Don, Kuban and Sea of Azov.