His films, Tractor Drivers ( 1939 ), The Swineherd and the Shepherd ( 1941 ), and his most famous, Cossacks of the Kuban ( 1949 ) all starred his wife, Marina Ladynina.

During the filming of Cossacks of the Kuban, the Soviet Union was going through a postwar famine.

From left to right, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( 1899 – 1918 ) | Maria, and Kuban Cossacks

*** Kuban Cossacks

The Cossacks even formed short-lived independent states, the Ukrainian State, the Don Republic and the Kuban People's Republic.

After the Red Army victory in the Russian Civil War, many Kuban Cossacks, fled the country to avoid persecution from the Bolsheviks.

A notable evacuation point was the Greek island of Lemnos where 18, 000 Kuban Cossacks landed, though many later died of starvation and disease.

In 1918, the Kuban Cossacks joined the White Army, and conscription of both peasants and Cossacks began.

In what was known as the Ice March, they traveled to Kuban in order to unite with the Kuban Cossacks ( most of whom did not support the Volunteer Army.

* Isaak Dunaevsky: Music to the film The Kuban ' Cossacks

The population of the krai is concentrated in the Kuban River and the Kuma River drainage basin, which used to be traditional Cossack land ( see History of Cossacks ).

The Kuban Cossacks are now generally considered to be ethnic Russians, even though they are still an important minority in their own right in this area.

The population of Krasnodar Krai is concentrated in the Kuban River drainage basin, which used to be traditional Cossack land ( see History of Cossacks ).

The Kuban Cossacks are now generally considered to be ethnic Russians, even though they are still an important minority in their own right in this area.

Other notable ethnic groups are the Adyghe who have lived in the Kuban area before the Cossacks and for thousands of years ; other residents include the Armenians ( mostly Christian Hamsheni ) who have lived in the region since at least the 18th century.

A 19th century photo depicting Kuban Cossacks obelisk in Yekaterinodar

The original name meant " Catherine's Gift " simultaneously in recognition of Catherine the Great's grant of land in the Kuban region to the Black Sea Cossacks ( later the Kuban Cossacks ) and in recognition of Saint Catherine, the Martyr, who is considered to be the patron of the city.

In the first half of the 19th century Yekaterinodar grew into a busy center of the Kuban Cossacks.

During the Russian Civil War the city changed hands several times between the Red Army and Volunteer Army, many Kuban Cossacks were committed anti-Bolsheviks who supported the White Movement.

He assembled an army of forty or fifty thousand, including the newly formed Kuban Cossacks.

The peoples of the Black and Caspian Sea basins — Ukraine, Don Cossacks, Kuban, Crimea, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Northern Caucasus — emancipated themselves politically in 1919 – 1921 but then lost their independence to Soviet Russia.

Hitler demanded that a road and rail bridge be built across the Strait of Kerch in the spring of 1943 to support a push through the Caucasus to Persia, although the cable railway ( aerial tramway ) which went into operation on 14 July with a daily capacity of one thousand tons was adequate for the defensive needs of the Seventeenth Army in the Kuban bridgehead.

Two important inscriptions from the first decade of Ramesses ' reign, namely the Abydos Dedicatory Inscription and the Kuban Stela of Ramesses II, consistently give the latter titles associated with those of a Crown Prince only, namely the " king's eldest son and hereditary prince " or " child-heir " to the throne " along with some military titles.

Its established borders were with Kuban People's Republic and the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus in the north, Ottoman Empire, Democratic Republic of Armenia in the south, and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in the southeast.

In its central part, until the confluence of the Bolshaya Laba River, the Kuban River flows in a wide flat valley with terraced slopes.

At 116 km from the mouth, the Kuban converges with a major tributary Protoka ( length 130 km ).

The wide delta of Kuban, with its abundant estuaries, is especially rich in plankton and benthos.

The Kuban gudgeon and Little Kuban gudgeon are restricted to the sections with moderately fast flow and gravel or sandy bottoms ; they are abundant in the middle part of the river.

Deposition of silt by the Kuban gradually pushed out the sea and shaped the delta with numerous limans and shallow estuaries.

Columns of the displaced were marched either to the Kuban plains or toward the coast for transport to the Ottoman Empire ... One after another, entire Circassian tribal groups were dispersed, resettled, or killed en masse " This expulsion, along with the actions of the Russian military in acquiring Circassian land, has given rise to a movement among descendants of the expelled ethnicities for international recognition that genocide was perpetrated.

Later such administrative uses were adopted by the Kuban Cossacks and were common in Kuban Oblast with different variations.

The Host went through a series of conflicts and alliances involving the three powers before falling into the Russian sphere of influence and eventually being forcibly disbanded in the late 18th century by the Russian Empire, with most of the population relocated to the Kuban region in the South edge of the Russian Empire, where the Cossacks served a valuable role of defending the Empire against the fierce Caucasian tribes and in return had a great degree of freedom granted by the Tsars.

The unit was then deployed to the Kuban area in the Crimea, on 27 October with 12 ' Emils ' on charge.

In the first match of the championship, Rubin defeated Kuban in Krasnodar, with a score of 2 – 0.

This expanse, together with the alluvial zone of the Kuban in the North Caucasus, constituted the fertile ` grain-surplus ' steppe areas of cereal production.

The Ussuri Cossack Host was created in 1889 on the basis of an unmounted half-battalion of the Amur Cossack Host and later reinforced with settlers from the Don Cossack Host, Kuban Cossack Host, and other Cossack hosts.

The other Polish divisions at that time were 1st, 2nd and 3rd fighting with the Blue Army formed by general Józef Haller de Hallenburg in France and the Polish 4th Rifle Division of general Lucjan Żeligowski fighting in Kuban River region in southern Russia.

The new host played a crucial role in the Russo-Turkish War ( 1787 – 1792 ), and for their loyalty and service, the Russian Empress rewarded them with eternal use of the Kuban, then inhabited by Nogai remnants, and in the cause of the Caucasus War a crucial progress in further pushing the Russian line into Circassia.

They made the migration to the Kuban in 1860 and merged with the Caucasus Line Cossack Host.

Rather than a traditional Imperial Guberniya ( governorate ) with uyezds ( districts ), the territory was administered by the Kuban Oblast which was split into otdels ( regions, which in 1888 counted seven ).

Kuban Cossacks pose with Nicholas II of Russia | Nicholas II and his family.