Petrovsk-Zabaikalskii

(until 1926 Petrovskii Zavod), a city under oblast jurisdiction and administrative center of Pe-trovsk-Zabaikal’skii Raion, Chita Oblast, RSFSR. Railroad station (Petrovskii Zavod) on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, 413 km southwest of Chita. Population, 30,000 (1974). An ironworks was constructed in 1789, and a new metallurgical plant was built in 1940. Industries also include lumbering, food processing, and glass. Petrovsk-Zabaikal’skii has medical and pedagogical schools.