ancient kirits roamed about them, homer recalls in the odyssey, then the scythians lived here, golden, scythia, the central part of their once powerful kingdom. this is also donbass polovtsy khazars. the pechenegs all passed through these steppes , it was here that they brought their regiments to the ground polovtsian for the russian land prince igor hero a word about igor's regiment for some time land. in borussia, there were poorly populated territories between the black sea and the forest zone of the dnieper and don, and the development of novorossiya begins in the era of peter the great. this was a russian imperial project for arranging the residence of a multinational population here. it all started with military settlements, the southern borders, the empire had to be protected from the turkish and tatar threats, their first inhabitants were serbs who were actively lured to these lands russian administrators. under elizabeth , entire colonies of southern slavs, serbs, moldavians, bulgarians, hungarians, slavic serbia and new serbia appeared in novorossia. the russian empire breathed life