. . "A khutor (Russian: \u0445\u0443\u0301\u0442\u043E\u0440) or khutir (Ukrainian: \u0445\u0443\u0301\u0442i\u0440, khutir, pl. \u0445\u0443\u0301\u0442\u043E\u0440\u0438, 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.In Cossack-settled lands that encompassed today's Ukraine, Kuban, and the lower Don river basin the word khutor was used to describe new settlements (irrespective of the number of homesteads) which had detached themselves from stanitsas."@en .