Pokrovsk (Yakut. Pokrovskaya) is a city, the administrative center of the Khangalassky ulus of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), forms the urban settlement of the city of Pokrovsk.
Pokrovsk
Etymology
It was founded in 1682 by the Cossacks as a fortification of Cape Karaulny, where Pokrovskaya Hermitage, which belonged to the Yakutsk Monastery, was discovered. In the 1720s it was transformed into an independent monastery, later the village of Pokrovskoye, since 1941 the working settlement of Pokrovsk[2], in 1997 it received the status of a city.
Geography
A city on the left bank of the Lena, 78 km southwest of Yakutsk. Coordinates 61.481266 129.144128
Story
Before the arrival of the Russians, on the site where the city is now located, there was a guard post of Tygyn Darkhan. From the high cape, a wide panorama of the river opened up, and, as if in the palm of your hand, you could see the movement along the river up and downstream. The area was called Khoruol tumus (Yakut. Khoruol tumuһa) - Guard Cape
The year of foundation of the city is considered to be 1682, in which the last uprising of the Khangalas Yakuts against the Cossacks took place. Driven to despair by the exorbitant requisitions of the royal governors, they opposed them with weapons in their hands. At the head of the rebels was the non-myugyn prince Dennik. After the defeat of the rebels on October 1 (11), on Pokrov Day, the troops of the voivode Ivan Priklonsky installed a large wooden cross, called Pokrovsky, on a high guard cape.
In 1703, part of the hermits of the Spassky Monastery from Yakutsk moved to a new place and founded a kind of branch of the monastery, called the Intercession Hermitage. In 1720 a church was built here. In 1724 the desert burned down. Several families of Russian peasants settled in its place.
The settlement then became a coach station near the Lena tract. In 1787, a second church was built in Pokrovsk, which gave it the status of a village.
In 1821, a new two-story church building of unique architecture was built. The high belfry and the gilded cross were visible even from the mouth of the Buotama. Built by craftsmen from thick pine logs fused from the upper reaches of the Lena, the church building stood for 139 years until it was dismantled in 1960. In 1850, a postal station was opened in Pokrovsk. They built a typical building that stood until the 80s of the last century, in which N. A. Naumov, an old resident of Pokrovsk, lived in the last years of his life.
In 1870, a brick building of the Church of the Transfiguration was built at the expense of the merchant Shestakov from Yakutsk. The merchant donated money in the hope of alleviating the fate of his only son, who, as a student in St. Petersburg, joined the Social Democrats and was arrested. In 1887, a parochial school was opened in Pokrovsk in the church building. The first teacher was the priest Neverov.
Yakutia. Pokrovsk. Restored church.
In 1895, Pokrovsk became the volost center of the Prilensky peasant coachmen, uniting 20 stations from Tabaga to Sanyyakhtakh. After 10 years, the volost was disaggregated, leaving 10 stations from Batamay to Tabaga for Pokrovsk. It was a small village, where there were about a dozen peasant households, the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and the Transfiguration, the nunnery of Saints Zosima and Savvaty, a postal station.
In 1931, Pokrovsk became the administrative center of the West-Kangalassky district, which was then renamed Ordzhonikidzevsky, now Khangalassky. In 1941 it received the status of an urban-type settlement. On September 26, 1997, it was given the status of a city.
Starting from the 80s of the XIX century, exiled populists, socialist-revolutionaries, social democrats visited here: M. Chkheidze, V. Yokhelson, S. Kotikov, G. Lisenkov, A. Gromov, A. Borchaninov and many others. Sergo Ordzhonikidze was exiled here in 1916-1917.
monument to Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Russian writers Ivan Goncharov, the author of the novels Oblomov and Frigate Pallas, visited Pokrovsk in the 19th century; Vladimir Korolenko, who described in his stories "The Sovereign Coachmen", "At-Daban" the life and customs of local coachmen; famous traveler, author of the book "Trip to Yakutsk" Nikolai Shchukin; writer, ethnographer Vatslav Seroshevsky, author of the famous fundamental work "Yakuts" and many others.
Population
Population for 2021 is 9507 people.
As of January 1, 2021, in terms of population, the city was in 937th place out of 1116] cities of the Russian Federation.
Economy
Industry
The city has a building materials plant, an asphalt-bitumen plant, and a plant for the production of basalt products.
Forestry. A fur farm that breeds silver-black foxes and sable. Compound feed plant.
Transport
It is connected by an asphalt road with Yakutsk (Route R-501). City public transport - bus (at least two city routes - 9 and 10). There is a suburban and intercity bus service to Yakutsk (bus 202). River pier. Ferry across the river. Lena "Pokrovsk - Tit-Ebya".
Climate
The climate of Pokrovsk, like the whole of central Yakutia, is distinguished by a very high degree of continentality. Summers are warm, often hot, but short, and winters are very long and severe. In winter, the temperature can drop below -50 °C, in summer it rises above +30 °C.
The average annual air temperature is -9.3 °C
Relative humidity - 69.5%
Average wind speed - 2.4 m/s
Climate of Pokrovsk
Source: NASA. RETScreen database
Culture, science, education
There are 4 schools in the city. Music and Art Schools.
The Pokrovsky College of Business Technologies operates (formerly a branch of the SFVU, former YSU).
There is a local history museum named after G. V. Ksenofontov and a house-museum of Grigory Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (Sergo Ordzhonikidze)
An Orthodox church was built for the 325th anniversary in 2007.
Pilot production farm "Pokrovskoe" of the Yakutsk Research Institute of Agriculture.
Near the city in the village of Oktyomtsy - a branch of the Yakut State Agricultural Academy
Yakutsk EAS Complex Facility of the Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy. Yu. G. Shafer.
A mitochondrial haplogroup D was found in a male warrior from the Pokrovsky burial of the 2nd era of the Early Iron Age of Yakutia (2400–2200 years ago).
outskirts of Pokrovsk
Pokrovsk city administration building
