Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kafin tafiye-tafiyen bincike na Cossacks na Rasha a cikin karni na 17, wurin Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky na gaba ya kasance hanyar hanyar kabilun nomadic Buryat. Bitrus Mai Girma ya ba shugabannin kabilun masarauta. Ginin, wanda aka kafa a 1789 kuma aka sani da Petrovsky Zavod (), ya girma kuma ya haɓaka a kusa da matatar ƙarfe. Daga 1830 zuwa 1839, ya kasance wurin tsarewa ga Decembrists saba'in da ɗaya
da kuma goma daga matansu, wanda aka aiko nan daga Chita. Akwai alamar tunawa a tashar jirgin kasa. A cikin gidan da aka mayar da shi na gimbiya Ekaterina Troubetskaya, matar Sergey Trubetskoy, an shirya gidan kayan gargajiya, wanda aka buɗe a ranar 10 ga Oktoba, 1980. A cikin gundumar tarihi ta Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky akwai gine-gine da yawa da suka shafi zamanin Decembrists a garin.