A hundred years had just passed before this population began to be colonized, taking in 171! Then 25 thousand souls, descendants of our famous Cossacks, will go to their virgin meadows. During the first sixty years, the Kuban Cossack, with his mighty chest, had to defend the border of Russia and push the enemy, the foreigner, out of his position, clearing new, wonderful places for the young sons of his fatherland. Then, from 1862-64, a peaceful, cultural period began. It is expressed very strangely: old men and elderly Cossacks, having returned to their communities after the war, take a break from service and are mostly occupied with reminiscing about the exploits of the intrepid scouts and scouts. about the courage and bravery of various officers and esauls and nroch. and so on. Young people, inspired by Tgeroy stories, go to service, where there is no longer anyone to fight with, but where the spirit of the undaunted Kazawi is energetically supported in an already idle life by horseback riding and other Cossack activities. Returning home after the “formation”, full of strength, Vazak considers it necessary. We also need to rest, start walking and walking. And yet, over time, its region is populated. Thousands of immigrants from Roseya fill not only the empty newly conquered towns, but also the ancestral farmsteads, clean-ups, tsarinas and other lands inhabited by generations of ancient Cossacks. The area is quickly overflowing with people. “In the last 15 years, says F.A. Shcherbina, the total number of non-residents in the Kuban region has increased to 250 thousand souls, which is 255/, of the Vazak population." And what will happen here in another 15-20 years? What will all this motley mass now inhabiting the described metropolis live and do then?..
Actually, political economy and social sciences are not my specialty. As a naturalist, I just can’t help but grieve that the Russian man is terribly cruel to the nature around him and to himself. Wherever he came, wherever he settled, he
First of all, he will destroy the natural riches of the region, which have not made you one 10th richer and more experienced. And all this because there is no one to take care of his mental and moral development and perfection; there is no one to tell that a person will not live by wheat alone, no one to teach what else he needs to do so that in case of drought and wheat crop failure, he does not die of hunger.
While sad thoughts about my homeland were coming into my head, the police approached the Kuban itself, the muddy waters of which were preparing for a flood. Then the vast and vast network of flooded meadows stretched out, which the hand of the “Russian cultured man” had not yet been able to distort. From the wind until the summer flood of Ku: baths from the Kavkazskaya and Nevinnomysskaya stations, on thick layers of sediment on flat surfaces and on sandy elevated points, a mass of diverse plant forms usually develop and emerge, interesting for every observer, not only for a botanist. Now everything was in full bloom and shone with the amazing luxury of growth. Having cleared the Nevinnomysskaya station, the police began to climb up the mountain. The highest point of the elevated railway road is near the Barsuki village, where it reaches 1430 f. above sea level. Between this camp and the solfaying Kursavka, etc., we landed to send her to the village. Sultanovskoe, and from there to Stavropol, mBetnoet again descends to Terek. This is Kublieko Terek watershed, which we wanted to travel along its entire length from Stavropol to Elborus inclusive.
Phi TE _In the Stavropol province.
The upper reaches of Kalaus and the land of the appanage house. —Strizhament. —
Stavropol.—The shifting sands of Beshiatira.