Was Grandfather a Kuban Cossack, see below, or was he a Cossack from a small hamlet/village named Kuban in what is today Novopskovskij raion/district >
Luhanska Oblast/Region > Eastern Ukraine ??? The place is too small to have its own post ofc, so it uses the one in Rohove. Zip code is 92341.
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History of Kuban Cossacks.
After Catherine II defeated (1775) the Zaporizhzhya (zäp'É™rÄzh`É™) Cossacks, (Zaporozhye, city (1989 pop. 884,000), capital of Zaporizhzhya region, in Ukraine, a port on the Dnieper River, opposite the island of Khortytsya.) some of them emigrated to Turkey, but in 1787 they were allowed to return and settle along the Black Sea between the Dnieper and the Buh rivers. Then known as the Black Sea Cossacks, in 1792 they were resettled in the KUBAN REGION (not the same as Luhansk Region). Though they lost much of their freedom and their rights were restricted, they were granted local self-government in return for military service. In 1860 they were renamed the Kuban Cossacks, while defending the Kuban region from hostile Circassian mountaineers to the south. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Kuban Cossacks proclaimed an independent republic and fought against the Bolsheviks. After the civil war of 1918–20 the Soviet regime abolished their government, and their traditional privileges were abrogated.
Kuban Region Geography.
Kuban is a river rising in the Greater Caucasus on the western slopes of Mt. Elbrus, Southern European Russia, and flowing north in a wide arc past Karachayevsk, Cherkessk, and Armavir, then W past Krasnodar, entering the Sea of Azov through two arms. Its upper course is precipitous and leads through several gorges; it then meanders slowly through the KUBAN STEPPE (plains), a rich black-earth area and one of the major grain and sugar-beet districts of RUSSIA. The last 150 mi (240 km) are navigable. Russia annexed the khanate of Crimea, of which the Kuban area was a part, in 1783. Now mainly within the Krasnodar Territory , administrative division (1995 pop. 5,004,200), 32,317 sq mi (83,701 sq km), SE European Russia, extending E from the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea into the Kuban steppe and straddling the northwestern end of the Greater Caucasus. Krasnodar is the capital. The territory includes the Adygey Republic .
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