UstTsimla

Ust-Tsimla was a Cossack town on the Don, near the mouth of the Tsimla. The river and its surrounding steppe formed part of the lands of the Don Cossacks, whose fortified towns stood at intervals along the waterway. Ust-Tsimla is recorded in the seventeenth century and later became the stanitsa of Tsimlyanskaya. In August 1696, Peter the Great stopped at Tsimla for about two hours while returning down the Don after the capture of Azov.