Novokhopyorsk fortress

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Coordinates: 51.1000, 41.6167 · On the full map →

Role in the family history

A fortress on the site of the ruined Pristansky settlement (built in 1716); in 1717 Khoper Cossacks and “Cherkasy” enrolled there — the core of the future Khoper Regiment, which set out from here for the Caucasus in 1777.

Names over time

1. XVII в. — 1712

   Pristansky gorodok

Events2

1. 13 September – 2 November 1716

   The Novokhopyorsk fortress

   ◆ documentedNovokhopyorsk fortress

2. 24 September 1775

   A Khoper regiment of five hundred

   ◆ documentedNovokhopyorsk fortress

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …has not yet been established. The name does not appear in the published transcriptions of the lists of Novokhopyorsk fortress of 1771 or of the first settlers of Stavropolskaya in 1782…

2. 2. The Khoper

   • …themselves were laid waste. On the site of Pristansky rose the fortress of Novokhopyorsk. Its official founding year is 1710; Tolstov, who worked from the archival files, writes that it was built…
   • …500 Khoper Cossacks, without their families but with their horses. In early July the regiment assembled at Novokhopyorsk; on 6 August, together with the Vladimir Dragoon Regiment of Colonel Baron Schulz, it marched out of…
   • …. The Khoper community grew out of the Don Cossacks of the upper townships, joined at Novokhopyorsk by the cherkasy of the sloboda regiments; Tolstov even describes the regiment’s original population as…

On the family route

Nearby

• the Khoper (river)173 km
• Voronezh179 km
• Tsaritsyn337 km
• Kursk383 km
• Ryazan412 km