Zimnyatsky

The lower Medveditsa flows through the Don Cossack lands near Zimnyatsky. Before the later farmstead appeared, the stanitsa of Glazunovskaya stood by the river here from the seventeenth century. Its wooden church and houses suffered repeated fires, while flooding remained a danger to the riverside community. The wooded floodplain and the Medveditsa's channels formed the setting of this older Cossack settlement, whose people lived close to the river on its way to the Don.