Coussac village/stanica Albashi, Kuban
Albashi - from old nagai name of river “Al bashi” - “Red Cap”
Hereditary Cossack, professional soldier, inhabitant of hight democratic settlement.
Do not like? In 1920-1930's the Soviet government violently struggled with the Cossacks, it was genocide and ethnocide - those highly organized military settlement with the freedom-loving and courageous people have been dangerous to the dictatorship of the Soviet regime. Found for the award, or Cossack saber Cossack Cavalry native weapons, could send into exile or kill, they had to hide.
Cossack settlements on the Russian border hindered of raids the Caucasian peoples - chechen, kabardins and some others. It was the Cossacks, for the right to live and conduct a free economy on the grounds of the Kuban, won the Caucasian peoples in the century Caucasian War ~ 1770-1870 years. As a result of the Civil War 1917-1920 and the policy of the Communist dictatorship of the Cossacks was destroyed by a third, a third of the Cossacks emigrated, those who remained were disarmed and transformed into simple farmers.
It is not very well known in the world the tragedy of an entire Black Sea ethnic group. Ethnic group, created from ethnic kasogov, cherkasov and south slavs whole millennium.
Ethnocide &nolink genocid against the Cossacks to the present time are not openly acknowledged the state apparatus - is too big payout will have to implement.
Only in 2000-2010, began to restore the memory of the Cossacks as an independent nation, people began to restore the history of their ancestors, from the archives and research - such a strong action had totalitarian Soviet regime.
The result, partially - since 1993 till now we have a hotbed of war in the Caucasus, but don't have a professional institution able to regulate and curb the expansion of violence in the Caucasus.
When I was born, the latest of the grandchildren, my grandfather was more 75 years old. He fought with the Turks in 1913 on Caucasus, in consisting of 26 Cossack regiments, was standard-bearer of his Cossack hundreds. For bravery was awarded two George Cross. On the average Caucasus, where people were fighting with the Turks, was badly wounded in the thigh, was treated for a long time and then was sent to the Cossack stock.
In the village trained as a veterinarian - treated the local cattle, and sometimes, if accounted for, and people. Had, like almost everything in the stanica/village, its farm - bred rabbits, chicken &nolink other birds, grew grapes and made their wine, have a couple of cows - their butter and cheese. Grandfather had an apiary, I grew up on honey collected by bees it.
