Uspenskoye

The land around Uspenskoye lies on the left bank of the Kuban, where the plains give way to the northern foothills of the Caucasus. The Kuban flows west from the mountains to the Sea of Azov, and its valley was home to Circassian communities before the expansion of Russian settlement. The river formed part of a contested frontier as Russia extended its military line across the northern Caucasus in the late eighteenth century.