Talowski

Talowski lies near the Maly Uzen, in the steppe between the Volga and the Ural. An outpost called Talovsky stood in the Karasu valley; a local account records about fifteen mud-built houses there in 1827. The river and its branches crossed a region used by Kazakh pastoralists and watched by the Ural Cossack frontier. In the early nineteenth century the lands between the great rivers became the pastures of the Inner, or Bokei, Horde.