The Council on March 25th was attended by Metropolitan Yekaterinodar and Kuban Isidor, representatives of the administration and the Legislative Assembly of the region, law enforcement agencies, deputy heads of municipalities, directors of the Cossack cadet corps, journalists.
As noted by the Ataman of the Kuban Host, General Nikolai Dolud, today the Kuban Cossack Army numbers almost 55,000 Cossacks. Given that there are about 250,000 people in the registered Cossacks of the country, the Kuban Army is the most numerous in Russia. And it was the Kuban Cossacks, being a Cossack vanguard, who first came to the aid of the inhabitants of the Crimea five years ago at a difficult moment, when the historical events of the Crimean spring occurred.
“The Cossack’s blood has a sense of responsibility for the country, for the Fatherland,” Nikolai Doluda noted. - The Cossack's blood is a willingness to help a person, or a republic, or a country in distress. Patriotism, Homeland - are not empty words for the Cossack. It was from time immemorial and passed on to the gene level, with mother's milk, from generation to generation. And you, the Kuban Cossacks, are real heroes. And our participation in the events of five years ago is a real military campaign of the Kuban Cossack army".
As noted by the Cossack general, the Union of Cossack youth of Kuban already has more than 95,000 people. 4,500 Cossack classes were created in the region, 53 Cossack schools work, and about 7–8 Cossack kindergartens.
And the task that the chieftain sets is to create a system for educating the younger generation in such a way that it starts in kindergarten, goes through all school years and ends in secondary special and higher educational institutions, when a person enters a larger life with a Cossack mentality Cossacks, knowing the history, culture and traditions of the Kuban Cossacks.
Николай Долуда