Severnaya (Aleksandrovskaya) fortress

On the map

Coordinates: 44.8319, 42.8583 · On the full map →

Role in the family history

Founded on 18 October 1777 on the Chechera, a tributary of the Kalaus; one of the four stanitsas of the Khoper Regiment (1777–1826).

Names over time

1. 1777–1778

   Aleksandrovskaya fortress

2. 1778–1869

   Severnaya stanitsa

In the chronicle

1. 2. The Khoper

   • …near a tributary of the Kalaus, Schulz left 250 Khoper Cossacks and two squadrons of dragoons to build the Aleksandrovskaya fortress (named Severnaya from 1778), and on 22 October he reached the site of the future Stavropol…

2. 1. The Name

On the family route

Nearby

• the Kalaus (river)38 km
• Vorovskolesskaya stanitsa63 km
• Mineralnye Vody73 km
• Stavropolskaya stanitsa (Stavropol fortress)73 km
• Karantinnaya stanitsa73 km