Nekrasov Cossacks, Nekrasovite Cossacks, Nekrasovites, Nekrasovtsy (russian: link=no, Некрасовцы, Некрасовские казаки, Казаки-некрасовцы) descend from those

Don Cossacks Don Cossacks (russian: Донские казаки, Donskie kazaki) or Donians (russian: донцы, dontsy) are Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don. Historically, they lived within the former Don Cossack Host (russian: До ...

who, after the defeat of the

Bulavin Rebellion The Bulavin Rebellion or Astrakhan Revolt (; Восстание Булавина, ''Vosstaniye Bulavina'') was a war which took place in the years 1707 and 1708 between the Don Cossacks and the Tsardom of Russia. Kondraty Bulavin, a democraticall ...

of 1707–1708, fled to the

Kuban Kuban ( Russian and Ukrainian: Кубань; ady, Пшызэ) is a historical and geographical region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, the Volga Delta and the Caucasus, and separated ...

in September 1708, headed by Ignat Nekrasov, hence their name. At that time the

Crimean Khanate The Crimean Khanate ( crh, , or ), officially the Great Horde and Desht-i Kipchak () and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary ( la, Tartaria Minor), was a Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to 1783, the long ...

ruled the Kuban. Later, other fugitives from the Don and runaway Russian serfs joined the Nekrasov Cossacks. The Nekrasovites were

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, and hence persecuted by Orthodox Russian authorities. Initially, the Nekrasovites settled by the right bank of the

Bolshaya Laba River The Bolshaya Laba (russian: Большая Лаба; ady, Лабэшхуэ, ''Labešxwe'', ), or Great Laba, is a river in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia. From the confluence In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs wher ...

, near its

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. Later, the majority, including Nekrasov himself, settled on the

Taman Peninsula The Taman Peninsula (russian: Тама́нский полуо́стров, ''Tamanskiy poluostrov'') is a peninsula in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia, which borders the Sea of Azov to the North, the Strait of Kerch to the West and the ...

, in three

townlet Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

s ('' gorodoks''): Bludilovsky, Golubinsky and Chiryansky (Блудиловский, Голубинский, Чирянский). The Nekrasovites continued to raid the adjacent Russian lands, including the Don area; Russian forces carried out counter-raids. As a consequence, until 1737, several hundreds of thousands of fugitives from Southern Russia fled to the

, with a significant number joining the Nekrasovites. About 1737 the activity of the Nekrasovites petered out: historians assume that Nekrasov died in that year. Soon afterwards the Nekrasovite community began to disintegrate and resettled in the

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. During the Second World War, a number of Nekrasov Cossacks participated in the war on the side of the German military. In 1962 some Nekrasov Cossacks migrated to the U.S.S.R. Compare: They have preserved the Don Cossack language, songs, and their ethnic identity despite their separation from other Cossacks for more than 200 years. There is an ongoing work for preserving the heritage of Nekrasov Cossack

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Heritage of Cossacks-Nekrasovites

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