Petrovsk-Sabaikalsky

city Petrovsk-Sabaikalsky Петровск-Забайкальский coat of arms Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Petrovsk-Sabaikalsky head Alexander Taranov Founded 1789 City since 1926 surface 43  km² population 18,549 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 431 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 800  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30236 Post Code 673009 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 236 501 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 17 '  N , 108 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '0 "  N , 108 ° 50' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

List of cities in Russia

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

geography

The city is located in a depression between the foothills of the Sagan and Zagan-Churtei ridges, which belong to the Transbaikal low mountain ranges , about 410 km west of the Oblast capital Chita , at the confluence of the Kischa river with the Baljaga , a smaller right tributary of the Chilok .

The city of Petrowsk-Sabaikalski is administratively directly subordinate to the region and at the same time the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

Petrovsk-Sabaikalski is the station of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Petrovsky Zavod station , route km 5784 from Moscow ). The M55 Irkutsk- Chita road runs past the city to the west.

history

Remains of the Petrovsky Zavod ironworks (2016)

In 1789, on the basis of the iron ore deposits, at the instigation of Catherine the Great, the Petrowski Sawod ironworks ( Peter works or smelter , named after Peter the Great ) with an associated settlement of the same name. The ores were extracted underground.

After the uprising of 1825, 71 leading Decembrists were exiled to Petrovsky Zavod , including Prince Sergei Trubetskoi . Alexander Pushkin refers to it in his well-known poem Mission to Siberia ( In the depths of Siberian ores ... ).

In 1926 the place was given city rights under the name Petrowsk-Sabaikalski (about Transbaikalisches Petrowsk , to distinguish it from Petrowsk in the Saratov Oblast ), in 1940 a new ironworks was opened.

Population development

year	Residents 1
1939	21,011
1959	29,795
1970	28,313
1979	30,945
1989	28,291
2002	21,164
2010	18,549

¹Note: census data

Culture, education and sights

In 1980 a Decembrist museum was opened in the house of Ekaterina Trubetskaya , who had voluntarily followed her husband into exile. A plaque at the station commemorates the exiled Decembrists. Several of them, including Ivan Gorbachevsky , are buried in the local cemetery.

In Petrovsk-Sabaikalsky there is a medical and an educational institute.

economy

In addition to the ironworks, there was a glassworks in Petrovsk, which was closed, as well as food and forestry businesses.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Petrovsk-Sabaikalsky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City Portal (Russian)