The settlement itself was founded as the Cossack "stanitsa" of Batalpashinskaya near the Russian Army outpost. The officially recognized year of founding of Batalpashinskaya and modern Cherkessk is 1825. However, the Cossack settlers from the Khopyour and Kuban regiments began arriving in the newly organized "stanitsa" not earlier than spring of 1826. In 1860, the village was designated as a center of a "uyezd" of the Kuban Oblast. A decree of 30 December 1869 by Tsar Alexander II transformed the village into a city of Batalpashinsk but the decree was never implemented, and Batalpashinskaya remained a "stanitsa" until the Soviet times. In 1888, the village became a seat of one of Kuban's seven otdels.