Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky (town)

Petrowsk - Zabaikalsky (Russian Петровск - Забайкальский ) is a city in the region, Transbaikalia (Russia) with 18,549 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city lies in a valley between the foothills belonging to the Transbaikal mountain ranges and ridges Sagan Zagan - Churtei, about 410 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Chita, at the mouth of the river Kischa in the Baljaga, a smaller, right tributary of the Khilok.

The city Petrowsk - Zabaikalsky is the region administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

Petrowsk - Zabaikalsky is station of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( station Petrovsky Zavod, 5784 route km from Moscow). At the city's highway M55 Irkutsk - Chita passes west.

History

1789 was based on the iron ore deposits at the behest of Catherine the Great, the ironworks Petrovsky Zavod (Peter - works or hut, named after Peter the Great ) and the associated, homonymous settlement. The ores were funded underground.

After the rebellion of 1825 71 leading Decembrists were exiled to Petrovsky Zavod, including Prince Sergei Trubetskoy. Alexander Pushkin refers in his famous poem missive to Siberia (in the depths of Siberian ores ... ) on it.

1926 was the place under the name Petrowsk - Zabaikalsky municipal law (about Transbaikalisches Petrowsk, to distinguish it from Petrowsk in the Saratov Oblast ), 1940 a new iron factory was opened.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1939 rounded)

Culture, Education and sights

1980 Dekabristenmuseum was in the house of Ekaterina Trubezkaja, who had followed her husband into exile voluntarily opened. At the station, a plaque commemorates the exiled Decembrists, several of them are buried in the local cemetery.

In Petrowsk - Zabaikalsky there is a medical and an educational establishment.

Economy

Apart from the ironworks existed in Petrowsk a glass factory, which was closed, as well as enterprises in the food and forestry.