Mityakinskaya

Mitakinskaya is a stanitsa in the Tarasovsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia.

Geography

The stanitsa is located on the left bank of the Donets, bordered by Ukraine to the west.

History

Mitakinskaya was founded in 1549 by the Don Cossacks people and was formally part of the ]  in Don Host Oblast. In 1917 the village had 28,000 people.

On 21 February 2022, during the War in Donbass, Russia claimed that five Ukrainian saboteurs were killed by Russian soldiers in Mitakinskaya.