[1] Together with the Black Sea Cossack Host, it defended the Caucasus Fortified Defense Line from the inlet of Terek River to the inlet of Kuban River while the lower reaches of the Kuban were occupied by the Black Sea army.
To reinforce the strength of the army, four civilian villages along the Kuma with a population of up to 4,050 persons of "both sexes" were assigned to it as early as 1832.
At the beginning of the XIX century, the villages of Temizhbek, Kazan, Tiflis, Ladoga and Voronezh were settled on the Caucasian Line.
The population of these stanitsas, which made up the Caucasian Cossack Regiment, was recruited from the southern Russian odnodvorets (Kursk, Voronezh, and Oryol provinces).
By the middle of the XIX century, odnodvorets would form the main backbone of the emerging linear Cossacks.