Baltic detail of Cossacks

In December 1990, the descendants of Don, Kuban, Terek, Ukrainian, Urals, Siberian and other Cossacks, now living in the Kaliningrad region, united in a single public patriotic organization. Each of them was brought to this place by his destiny and each of them wanted to serve the nation and the State. Today the Baltic Separate Cossack Circuit is a dynamically developing organization, which has taken all the liabilities of the federal service within the frames of the Federal law № 154-FL “About the state service of the Russian Cossacks”. The structure of the circuit includes 5 departments: the Kaliningrad department, the Frontier department, the Coastal department, the Northern and the Eastern departments. These departments in their turn consist of 35 rural and urban societies, that are already registered as legal entities or are being in process of registration right now. These societies include 3020 Cossacks. And more than 2000 of them have already taken all the liabilities of the federal service. The Cossacks consider the protection of the Motherland as the task of the highest priority. Together with the frontier guards they take part in the guarding the State boundary. They also participate the raids together with the representatives of the Office of the Federal Service for Drug Control in the Kaliningrad Region. The activities of the Baltic Cossacks are widely illustrated in mass-media of our city. The participation of Ataman and other Cossack officials in several programs on the local TV-channels has already become a good tradition. The Cossacks have always been known for their talents, and original culture. Far beyond the borders of our region people know such Cossack ensembles as “ Stanitsa” (“Cossack-village”), “Play, Accordion”, “Slavonic Circle”, “Ataman”, “Sudarushka” (“Madam”). Today the Baltic Separate Cossack Circuit is developing dynamically. There is a newspaper “The Baltic Cossack”. All current events are covered in “The Cossack Bulletin” as well as extremely interesting information on the Cossacks shrines and traditions.