Before the exploration expeditions of the Russian
Cossacks in the 17th century, the future Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky's location was a route junction of nomadic
Buryat tribes.
Peter the Great granted the heads of the tribes with
principality. The settlement, founded in 1789 and known then as Petrovsky Zavod (Петровский Завод),[citation needed] grew and developed around its iron
refinery. From 1830 to 1839, it was a
detention place for seventy-one
Decembrists 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.[citation needed]
In 1940, a new iron
refinery was built, which was one of the most important iron factories in the region during the following decades.
There is a glass plant, a
sawmill, and food factories in Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky. The town is a railroad station on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, and on the Chita–
Ulan-Ude route.
References
Notes
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abcdeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities of Zabaykalsky Krai
^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.
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