Khutor

A khutor (Russian:ху́тор;IPA: [ˈxutər]) or khutir (Ukrainian:ху́тiр, khutir, pl. ху́тори, khutory) is a type of rural locality in some countries of Eastern Europe; in the past the term mostly referred to a single-homestead settlement.

They existed in Cossack-settled lands that encompassed today's Ukraine, Kuban, and the lower Don river basin while in Kuban and Don region the word khutor was also used to describe new settlements (irrespective of the number of homesteads) which had detached themselves from stanitsas. In some Cossack communities in Russia, these types of settlements were referred to as posyólok. In Russia the term "выселки" (vyselki, literally, "those who moved away") was also used. To this day, khutor remains the official designation of many Russian villages in these regions.