Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky ( rus, Петровск-Забайкальский, p=pʲɪˈtrofsk zəbɐjˈkalʲskʲɪj) is a

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and the

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Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky District Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky District (russian: Петро́вск-Забайка́льский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the ...

Zabaykalsky Krai Zabaykalsky Krai ( rus, Забайкальский край, r=Zabaikal'skii krai, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲskʲɪj kraj, lit. "Transbaikal krai"; bua, Yбэр Байгалай хизаар, Uber Baigalai Xizaar) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) t ...

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, located along the Balyaga River in the valley between Zagan-Daban and Zagorinsky mountain ranges, southwest of Chita. Population:

History

Before the exploration expeditions of the Russian

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in the 17th century, the future Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky's location was a route junction of nomadic Buryat tribes.

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

granted the heads of the tribes with

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. The settlement, founded in 1789 and known then as Petrovsky Zavod (), grew and developed around its iron

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. From 1830 to 1839, it was a detention place for seventy-one

Decembrists The Decembrist Revolt ( ru , Восстание декабристов, translit = Vosstaniye dekabristov , translation = Uprising of the Decembrists) took place in Russia on , during the interregnum following the sudden death of Emperor Ale ...

and ten of their wives, who were sent here from Chita. There is a commemorating mark on the railway station. In a restored house of the princess Ekaterina Troubetskaya, wife of Sergey Trubetskoy, was organized a museum, which opened on October 10, 1980. In Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky's historical district there are several buildings related to the times of Decembrists in the town. In 1926, the settlement was granted town status and given its present name. In 1940, a new iron

was built, which was one of the most important iron factories in the region during the following decades.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky serves as the

and is subordinated to it.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities of Zabaykalsky Krai As a municipal division, the town of Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky is incorporated as Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky Urban Okrug.The Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities lists one town, three urban-type settlements, and twenty-two rural localities in Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky District. The town of Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky is listed as a part of Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky Urban Okrug in Law #316-ZZK.

Economy and transportation

There is a glass plant, a

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, and food factories in Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky. The town is a railroad station on the

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, and on the Chita–

Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude (; bua, Улаан-Үдэ, , ; russian: Улан-Удэ, p=ʊˈlan ʊˈdɛ; mn, Улаан-Үд, , ) is the capital city of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about southeast of Lake Baikal on the Uda River at its confluence wi ...

route.

References

Notes

Sources

* * *Дворниченко Н. Е., Земля за Байкалом, Иркутск, 1970 *Прыжов И. Г., Пушкарев Л. Н., Декабристы в Сибири на Петровском Заводе, М., 1985

External links

* Mojgorod.ru
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