Ostrogozhsk

Ostrogozhsk is a metropolis and the place of job of Ostrogozhsky District in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, placed at the Tikhaya Sosna River a Don's tributary, 142 kilometers south of Voronezh, the place of work of the oblast. As of the 2010 Census, its populace turned into 33,842. Ostogozhsk is a ancient middle of Eastern Sloboda Ukraine. It was hooked up in 1652 by way of Belgorod Voivode Fedor Arsenyev and Cossack Ivan Zevkovsky or Dzenkovsky as Ostogozhsk little citadel bringing alongside a few 2,000 resettlers from Chernigov and Nezhin Regiments around an ostrog fort of the Belgorod Defensive Line of Russia.

During the time of Stepan Razin's rise up towards Aleksey Mikhailovich of Russia the metropolis become underneath control of rebellious Cossacks. In 1696 Peter the Great stopped at Ostrogozhsk to meet with the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Ivan Mazepa and Cossacks of Ostrogozhsk regiment. At the Ostrogozhsk town square is positioned a memorial commemorating the occasion. In 1765 the city became integrated into newly mounted the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate.

In 1802 the city of Ostrogozhsk ended up within the new Voronezh Governorateand equal year it turned into granted the town rights. Since then the metropolis have become a middle of the cut up East Sloboda Ukraine. According to the 1897 Russian census there had been 1.1 million of Little Russians in Voronezh Governorate, which changed into simplest insignificantly much less than the number of Great Russians.