Whilst the first official record of Krasnostop is from the 1800s, its Caucasian predecessors are known to date from the 9th century AD in the Lower Volga regions.
Krasnostop is believed to derive from krasno (meaning "red" in Russian) and stop ("feet"), meaning literally that it "paints feet red".
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