Kuban Cossacks

Kuban Cossacks (Kubans), Kuban Cossack army — part of the Cossacks of the Russian Empire in the North Caucasus, inhabiting the territories of the modern Krasnodar Territory, the western part of the Stavropol Territory, the south of the Rostov Region, as well as the Republics of Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia, mainly descendants of immigrants from the Cossack Host Zaporozhye. The military headquarters is the city of Yekaterinodar (modern Krasnodar). The army was formed in 1860 with the unification of the Black Sea Cossack army of 176 thousand souls of both sexes (including 866 peasants), with the Caucasian linear Cossack army of 269 thousand. souls of both sexes (including 665 peasants), which was "abolished as unnecessary" as a result of the end of the Caucasian war.