Antin Holovaty or Anton Golovaty ; between 1732 and 1744 – January 28, 1797 was a prominent Zaporozhian Cossack leader who after the Zaporozhian Sich's destruction was a key figure in the formation of the Black Sea Cossack Host and their later resettlement to the Kuban Region of Russia.
Antin Holovaty
The transition to the Kuban. The part of the Holovaty monument in Odessa
The lines often ascribed to Taras Shevchenko. The part of Holovaty monument in Odessa
Black Sea Cossack Host, also known as Chernomoriya, was a Cossack host of the Russian Empire created in 1787 in southern Ukraine from former Zaporozhian Cossacks. In the 1790s, the host was re-settled to the Kuban River. It comprised the Caucasus Fortified Defence Line from the mouth of the Kuban River to the mouth of the Bolshaya Laba River.
E.M. Korneev "Black Sea Cossack", 1812.
Cossack graves in the steppe, SW Ukraine
The migration to Kuban, a part of the monument of Antin Holovaty in Odessa
Black Sea Cossack (1781)