Kushchyovskaya
# Kushchyovskaya

Kushchyovskaya (Russian: Кущёвская) is a rural locality (a stanitsa) and the administrative center of Kushchyovsky District in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 28,362. Kushchyovskaya (air base) is near to the town.

## History

It was established in 1794 and reclassified as a stanitsa in 1842. The settlement came to national attention in 2010 as the site of the Kushchyovskaya massacre.

