Mozdok

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Coordinates: 43.7500, 44.6500 · On the full map →

Role in the family history

The eastern end of the Azov–Mozdok Line; on 25 September 1777 the Khoper Cossacks reached Mozdok and set out from there for the line.

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …. In this country — by the headwaters of the Kalaus and the upper Yegorlyk, on the Azov–Mozdok Line — the Khoper Cossacks lived from 1777 to 1825, until the regiment was moved to the Kuban and the Kuma…

2. 2. The Khoper

   • …and Yeya rivers”. Prince Potemkin resolved to extend the line of settlements from Mozdok towards the Don and to settle Khoper and Volga Cossacks along it. His report on the new Azov–Mozdok Line…
   • …is just over a kilometre) in 25 days to the Madzhary tract on the Kuma. On 25 September the column reached Mozdok, and at the beginning of October it set out for the Line. The march was hard: more…

3. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • The Khoper Regiment came to the Azov–Mozdok Line in the autumn of 1777 and, together with dragoons, laid out the fortress from which Stavropol grew.…
   • …in Batalpashinskaya part of the money for a new one. So, in Tolstov’s words, after fifty years on the Azov–Mozdok Line the Khoper Cossacks “left the comfortable places they had made their own and, with all their ‘families…

4. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …Pakhomovich lived in Stavropolskaya, one of the Khoper Regiment’s stanitsas (Cossack villages) on the Azov–Mozdok Line. In 1825 the regiment was moved to the Kuban:…

On the family route

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