As the 7th Russo-Turkish war brewed, the Russian Empire needed military power, and General Grigory Potemkin helped re-create Cossack hosts to fight alongside Russian soldiers against the Ottomans, most notably the Black Sea Cossack Host.

In November of the same year, it elected its own regional government from among the members, then declared the creation of the Kuban People's Republic on January 28, 1918. this state was centered around the city of Yekaterinodar, and dissolved by 1920.

According to censuses in the 1930s, around 62% of the population in the Krasnodar Territory self-identified as Ukrainian, but this share significantly dropped during the Holodomor.

[3] Based on the 1897 Russian Census for Kuban Oblast, there are a total of 1,918,881 people at the time.

Here are the following results based on ethnicity:[4] Kabardians Tatars Abazins The demographic data for Kuban Okrug in the 1926 Soviet census is as follows:[5] There were other regions with significant Ukrainian population in modern-day Russia, including Yellow Ukraine in the Volga Basin, Grey Ukraine in Central Asia and Green Ukraine in the Russian Far East.