Editing Cossack host (section)

== Russian Empire ==
Each Cossack host consisted of a certain territory with Cossack settlements that had to provide military regiments for service in the [[Imperial Russian Army]] and for [[border guard| border patrol]] operations. Usually the hosts were named after the regions of their location. The ''[[stanitsa]]'', or village, formed the primary unit of this organization.

In the Russian Empire (1721-1917), the Cossacks constituted twelve separate hosts, settled along the frontiers: 

* the [[Don Cossack Host]]
* the [[Bug Cossacks]]
* the [[Kuban Cossack Host]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Kuban Cossack Host |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CK%5CU%5CKubanCossackHost.htm |website=Internet Encyclopedia Of Ukraine |publisher=Internet Encyclopedia Of Ukraine |access-date=26 December 2023}}</ref>
* the [[Terek Cossack Host]]
* the [[Astrakhan Cossack Host]]
* the [[Ural Cossack Host]]
* the [[Orenburg Cossack Host]]
* the [[Siberian Cossacks]]
* the [[Semiryechye Cossack Host]]
* the [[Transbaikal Cossack Host]]
* the [[Amur Cossack Host]]
* the [[Ussuri Cossack Host]] 

There was also a small number of the Cossacks in [[Krasnoyarsk]] and [[Irkutsk]], who would form the [[Yenisey Cossack Host]] and the [[Irkutsk]] Cossack [[Regiment]] of the [[Ministry of the Interior]] in 1917.

Cossack hosts on Russian soil were disbanded in 1920, in the course of the [[Russian Civil War]] of 1917–1922 in a deliberate process of [[De-Cossackization]] to remove their autonomy.