Tatsinskaya

The steppe around Tatsinskaya belongs to the country of the Don Cossacks, between the Don and the rivers of the Donets basin. Cossack communities established themselves along the rivers of this frontier, where they combined military service with fishing, stock raising and cultivation. Their lands came increasingly under Russian authority, but retained a distinctive organization around the Cossack host and its stanitsas. The settlement that gave Tatsinskaya its later name arose only after this era.