About this book:

Discover the hidden history of one of Eurasia’s great crossroads. *A History of Stavropol Krai* takes readers from ancient hunter-gatherers, kurgan builders, Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans across the rolling steppe, through Mongol conquests, Cossack frontiers, imperial expansion, and the founding of Stavropol itself.

Spanning empires, revolutions, wars, Soviet transformation, and the modern search for identity, this book reveals how a region between the Don, Volga, Caspian, Kuban, and Caucasus shaped—and was shaped by—the forces that made Russia. For readers drawn to borderlands, archaeology, military history, and the lives of ordinary communities at the edge of great powers, this is a compelling journey through a land where East meets West and the past still echoes in the present.