Abakan

Abakan is the capital town of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, Abakansky ostrog, additionally called Abakansk, changed into built at the mouth of the Abakan River in 1675. In the 1780s, the selo of Ust-Abakanskoye changed into set up in this vicinity. It become granted metropolis reputation and given its current call on April 30, 1931. In 1940, Russian creation people found ancient ruins for the duration of the construction of a motorway between Abakan and Askiz. When the web page was excavated by using Soviet archaeologists in 1941–1945, they realized that they'd determined a constructing actually precise for the location: a big Chinese-fashion, likely Han Dynasty generation palace.

The identity of the high-rating personage who lived luxuriously in Chinese style, some distance outside of the borders of the Han Empire, has remained a rely for dialogue ever because. Russian archaeologist L.A. Yevtyukhova surmised, based totally on circumstantial proof, that the palace can also had been the house of Li Ling, a Chinese preferred who had been defeated via the Xiongnu in ninety nine BCE, and defected to them as a result. While this opinion has remained popular, other perspectives had been expressed as well. More lately, for example, it was claimed by way of A.A. Kovalyov as the residence of Lu Fang, a Han throne pretender from the Guangwu era.