Place · River · The Caucasus Line and Stavropol
the Kalaus (river)
река КалаусStavropol Krai
- The family here: 1627; 1777–1825
On the map
Role in the family history
A steppe river, left tributary of the Western Manych, known to Russians since 1627. The Khoper Cossacks lived in its upper reaches, “by the heads of the Kalaus”, from 1777 to 1825. The family’s name “Kalaus steel” echoes this river.
Names over time
1627
Kulauz, Kalauz
Events3
In the chronicle
- …of scraps”. The word even became a place name: there is a village called Kalauz in the Nikolsky district of Vologda Oblast.
- …is known only from dialect records of the 19th and 20th centuries. (The Kalaus River, discussed below, is mentioned as early as 1627.)
- The name also echoes a river. The Kalaus is a steppe river of the Stavropol region, a left tributary of the Western Manych, 436 km long…
- Under the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774, Russia’s border in the Caucasus “was to be considered the Kalaus and Yeya rivers”. Prince Potemkin resolved to extend the line of settlements from…
- On 18 October, near a tributary of the Kalaus, Schulz left 250 Khoper Cossacks and two squadrons of dragoons to build the Aleksandrovskaya fortress (named…
- The Khoper section of the Line ran across the upper Kalaus — a great steppe river that rises on the same upland as the Yegorlyk and the Yeya…
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- The Stavropol fortress was meant “to guard the passage along the valley of the Kalaus River”, and the Khoper Cossacks lived by the upper reaches of that river for half a century,…
- …called by his name, as in “Bazalay steel” and “Chilli buolat”. Yet the word also echoes the Kalaus, beside which Trofim and his sons had lived. The steel and the workshops are the subject of the chapter “The…