The article on the materials of the Stavropol Territory shows the main content-chronological stages of formation and development of the Cossack-associations in southern Russia at the end of the XX–XXI century. Proved that in the structure of modern Cossacks Cossack communities stand made in the State Register of the Russian Federation, and the Cossack associations and fugitive descendants of the Cossacks.

The article on the materials of the Stavropol Territory shows the main content-chronological stages of formation and development of the Cossack-associations in southern Russia at the end of the XX–XXI century. Proved that in the structure of modern Cossacks Cossack communities stand made in the State Register of the Russian Federation, and the Cossack associations and fugitive descendants of the Cossacks.