Berdsk

Berdsk is a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, a satellite TV for pc of Novosibirsk, located on a bank of the Berd River. The migration of Russians into the territory of current Novosibirsk Oblast commenced at the cease of the 17th century and continuing thru the beginning of the 18th century. The human beings had been normal for all of the Siberia colonization: fugitive peasants who escaped from excessive pressure of Peter the Great's regime, Old Believers, human beings free for various motives like hunters for furs attracted via the richness of Siberian woods and others, looking for freedom and wishing to settle in those locations.

By 1715, the Berd River basin became populated considerably for the ones a while. The threat of incursions of nomads from the south made them call for constructing a citadel for defense from the Tomsk district government. In 1716, an expedition left Tomsk and got here to the place among the Ob River and its confluent the Berd. The construction turned into led by Ivan Butkeyev, a captive Pole, who settled in Russia, became a serviceman and went to Siberia. A fortress turned into built in the angle among the 2 rivers. It turned into covered via the rivers and precipitous banks from facets and via a dense woodland at the third side. The Ob River valley turned into determined nicely too from the peak of the banks.