1893. In the Salsk District of the Don Cossak Corps Region brothers Mikhailikov, landlords, create a stud farm of the three sections: Orlov-Rostopchin, English halfbreed and the Don breed. Total population size: 39 stallions, 540 dams.
1899, September. At the racing competition in the stanisa Velikokniayheskaya the horses exhibited by the stud farm win various prizes and awards.
1917-1920. After the military action in the course of the Civil war the stud farm is ruined and devastated. The owners of the stud farm abandon their estate. The horses are left to survive in the steppe.
1921, June. Creation of the state stud farm "Salsky" in the territory of the Mikhailikov estate. The first stud farm director is Lvov. Departamental subordination - military departament of the Agriculture Ministry through the North Caucasian stud farms trust of the Chief stud farms directorate. Initial population of saddle horses: 48 dams, 7 stallions, 22 youngsters, 5 draught horses.
1926. The Salsky stud farm is included into the structure of the First Cavalry military stud farm as an operating departament engaged with the youngsters breeding. Introduction of a new method of youngsters breeding - enlarged herds breeding in elevers (pactures enclosed by forest plantations)..jpg)
193. Extension of land domain to the west. Final demaracation of the Salsky stud farm.
1936. The Salsky stud farm is given a new name- the Military farm № 159. Full name- the Military Cavalry stud farm of the Red Army named in honor of comrade Kirov.
1937-1939. The stud farm director is commissar Lutokhin.
1939-1951. The stut farm director is lietenant colonel S. Vetchinkin. .jpg)
1941, October, 20. The stud farm is evacuated for the first time with all its material property. Total population size: 2000 heads, dams population - 600 mares of the Don and Budenov breeds.
1941, November. The stud farm arrives to the Kharabolotinsk District (west Kazakhstan).
1942, middle of April. The stud farm returns from the first evacuation.
1942, end of July. The horse population is evacuated for the second time to the village Mukhrovan (near Tbilisi), Georgia.
1943, March. The stud farm returns from the second evacuation. Dams population- 400 mares of the Don and Budenov breeds.
1945. The bloodstock population of the Don and Budenov horses is handed over to the recently created Gashunsky military stud farm.
1945, August, 13. Arrival of Trakehner horses from the Trakehner stud house (Trakehnen Hauptgestuet), East Prussia.
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1949. The stud farm is repeatedly visited by S. Budenny, deputy minister of Agriculture of the USSR, who inspects the quality of the horse breeding work.
1951-1956. The stud farm director is L. Slanov.
1953, July. Due to the definitive liquidation of cavalry units in corps of the Soviet Army, the Kirov stud farm changes its departmental military subordination and reports to the Agriculture Ministry.
1953, September- 1954, February. Two plenary sessions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR decide to exlude horse breeding from the principal areas of the agriculture development, and to point out as such the productive animal farming and the virgin lands development. From now on the horse population of the Kirov stud farm is being reduced.
1954. Out of 30 000 hectares of the district virgin lands, 13 000 hectares are ploughed up in the territory of the Kirov stud farm. The farm is given 40 tractors DT-54, 5 seeding machines S-100, and other machinery designed to cultivate the land.
1957-1968. The stud farm director is Kobylianskiy M.
1958. The stud farm is presented for the first time at the All-USSR exhibition of agriculture achievements in Moscow.
1968-1972. The stud farm director is J. Savitskiy.
1972-1978. The stud farm director is V. Chumachenko.
1977. Construction of a moment to the stallion Pepel, Olympic champion, at the entrance to the Kirov stud farm.
1978-1988. The stud farm director is N. Firsov.
1988, May, 23- 2000, January, 10. The stud farm director is V. Cherkezov.
1988. The central farmstead and all the dwelling houses and flats of the Kirov stud farm area are being supplied with natural gas.
1989. The Kirov stud farm is the founder of the Russian Trakehner horse breeding association (RTHBA).
1990. After a long-time recess the Kirov stud farm organizes the National Championship of show jumping.
1997. The Kirov stud farm signs an agreement with the Trakehnen Union. The RTHB Association becoms the 10-th member of the International Trakehnen Union.
The Russian Trakehner horse breeding association gets the right to brand the best Trakehner horses with a special brand mark- a seven-pointed elk horn with the letter symbol established in Russia (letter "K" according to the first letter of the leading stud farm name-"Kirov").
2000. The director of the Kirov stud farm, C.C. is A. Pozdnyakov.
