Orenburg Cossacks
The Orenburg Cossack Host (Russian: Оренбургское казачье войско) was a part of the Cossack population in pre-revolutionary Russia, located in the Orenburg province (today's Orenburg Oblast, part of the Chelyabinsk Oblast and Bashkortostan). == History == After having constructed fortifications around the future town of Orenburg in 1734, they officially founded it in 1735.