Belaya Kalitva is located in the Central part of Rostov region on the Bank of the Seversky Donets. The city itself stands at the mouth of a tributary of the Donets rivers Kalitva and Dashing.
Area of 2650 sq. km, length from North to South 150 km. the population of 113,7 thousand people.
In 1703 a group of Cossacks appealed with a petition to the troop ataman Ekim Filipieva about the permission to settle a new town in the mouths of the rivers Belaya Kalitva. This date is considered the official.
Pre-revolutionary history of Belaya Kalitva is connected with the Cossacks. Among the prominent military commanders belokalitvinsk known Peter Ivanovich Pavlov.
During the Great Patriotic war three belokalitvinsk became full gentlemen of order of Glory soldier, fifteen - heroes of the Soviet Union. Belaya Kalitva was under the occupation of six months. Her release took place in the area of the battle of Stalingrad.