Chernyshevsk ( rus, Чернышевск, p=t͡ɕɪrnɨˈʂɛfsk) is an urban settlement and the administrative center of the Chernyshevsky District,

Zabaykalsky Krai Zabaykalsky Krai is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the Russian Far East. Its administrative center is Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Chita. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, the population was ...

. The village is located on both sides of the river Aleur at its confluence with the river Kuenga, 389 kilometers (by rail) north-east of Chita.

History

Originally Aleurskaya zaimka then Popovskaya settlement, which arose no earlier than 1670. In 1851, the peasants who lived in the settlement were attributed to the

Cossack The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an important role in defending the southern borders of Ukraine and Rus ...

estate. In 1908, Pashenny halt was built on

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on the other side of the river Aleur. During the construction of the railway, a builder's camp appeared and later became a village. In 1921 two settlements merged into one, named Chernyshevo. In 1928, a railway halt was reorganized into Pashennaya station. District centre since 1934;

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status since 1938. New impetus to the development of the settlement was given by the construction of new sections of the

Trans–Baikal Railway The Transbaikal Railway (Забайкальская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Chita and serving Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast. The mainline was built between ...

in 1933–1940. In those years new locomotive and wagon depots, a power station, a post house, a new railway station house and a school appeared. In 1936, the village received People's Commissar of Railways

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and for this reason the station was named after him: ''imeni Kaganovicha''. In September 1957, the station was renamed to Chernyshevsk-Zabaykalsky, and the settlement imeni Kaganovicha to Chernyshevsk.

References

{{Zabaykalsky Krai Cities and towns in Zabaykalsky Krai