The Kuban Cossacks, vagabond warriors, patrollers of Russia’s southerly margin, knew better than to penetrate the pined cliffs into which others had roamed to ultimate peril. The stray Russian ...

47 x 37 cm. (18.5 x 14.6 in.) ...

In the steppes of the Kuban love is born on two collective farms while wheat is (enthusiastically) gathered. Galina, the energetic chairwoman of one of the two kolkhozes, vies with her male ...

Read more about other types of Caucasian pies here. A traditional meat pie baked for weddings by Don and Kuban Cossacks and, later, the recipe spread throughout Russia. Most often, the filling was ...

‘Plast’, an old Cossack word, unmistakably alluded to the ties between the education of young boys and girls and the Ukrainian military tradition (‘plastuns’ were the guard troops of the Kuban ...

As was reported earlier, during the drills, Russia will be represented by the reinforced battalion of the Kuban Cossack air assault regiment of the Airborne Force (700 paratroopers). Belarus has ...

If you’re curious about the life of Kuban Cossacks, pay a visit to the Ataman ethnographic complex and to the town of Ust-Labinsk.

The animation is based on an old Kuban fairy tale, which is based on events that actually happened. A rare film shot in Balachka (Kuban dialect of Ukrainian language).

The resettlement of Volga accompanied military colonization and Don Cossacks to lands along the Kuban and Terek rivers. In the 1780s, a Shariah movement emerged in the Chechen lands. This period ...

Cossack of the Don. The Illustrated London News. February 3, 1854 Cossacks Skirmishing. The Illustrated London News. November 16, 1855 John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. July 17, 1853 A heavily armed ...

Among the group’s members are Rusfond charity organization’s President Lev Ambinder, Ataman (head) of the Kuban Cossack society Nikolay Doluda, former pole vaulter and two-time Olympic ...