Petrovsk Zabaykalsky

Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky is a metropolis and the place of job of Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. Before exploring expeditions of the Russian Cossacks in the 17th century, the future Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky's spot became a direction junction of nomadic Buryat tribes. Peter the Great granted the heads of the tribes with principality. The agreement, founded in 1789 and regarded then as Petrovsky Zavod grew and evolved around its iron refinery. From 1830 to 1839, it changed into a detention region for 71 Decembrists and ten their wives, who were sent here from Chita.

There is a commemorating mark on the railway station. In a restored house of the princess Yelena Troubetskaya, spouse of Sergey Trubetskoy, was organized a museum, which opened on October 10, 1980. In Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky's historical district there are numerous buildings related to the instances of Decembrists inside the town. In 1926, the agreement was granted metropolis popularity and given its present call. In 1940, a brand new iron refinery changed into constructed, which was of the crucial iron factories within the vicinity during following a long time.