Argunsk

It is located 54 km north of the village of Nerchinsky Zavod on the left bank of the Argun River ^[2] .

The village was founded in 1681 as the Argun prison on the right bank of the Argun River near the mouth of the Maritka River. According to the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, the village was moved to the opposite bank to the mouth of the Kamara River.

For 1704 and 1715 the prison was a quadrangular structure measuring 9.4 * 14 meters. On the territory of the prison there was an inn, an order and a court hut, outside it there were cossacks, there were about 50 people in the garrison. The main occupations of the local Cossacks were the collection of yasak from the Tungus , the protection of mineral deposits and a silver smelter, agriculture, and various crafts. In 1719, the Ascension Church opened in the prison. In the 1680-1720s, the route of diplomatic embassies to China passed through the Argun prison.

In 1735, a new, much larger one was built on the site of the old fortress: its dimensions were 47.5 * 64.8 meters, two road gates appeared. On the territory of the prison there was a shiphouse and outbuildings (barns), outside it there were about 70 residential buildings, a church and several more barns.

Due to the loss of military defensive significance in the mid-end of the XVIII century, the prison has ceased to exist. The last mention of it dates back to 1792 ^[3]

In 1872, the Argun village, which was part of the 3rd military branch of the Trans-Baikal Cossack Army , was the center of the village government, which was subordinate to 11 settlements. From 1878 to 1918, the village was part of the 4th (Nerchinsk-Zavodskoye) military branch of the Trans-Baikal Cossack army.

In 1930, the Granit collective farm was formed in the village, and in 1959 it was reorganized into the Argunsky state farm. The state farm specialized in meat and dairy cattle breeding and growing grain crops, also involved in sheep and pedigree horse breeding. In 2001 it was transformed into LLC Argunsk ^{[2] [4]} .

The main enterprise in the village is Argunsk LLC, which is currently engaged in pedigree horse breeding and beef cattle breeding. As of 2002, the number of employees of the agricultural enterprise was 71 people. The number of horses totaled 724 heads, cattle - 264 heads. The total land area owned by the enterprise in 2001 amounted to 18.1 thousand hectares, while 17.5 thousand hectares were occupied by agricultural land, of which 1.1 thousand were arable land, 4.9 were fallow lands, 11.5 - to forage land. Crops are grown on an area of ​​500 hectares ^[4] .

In the village there are a secondary school, a club, a branch of the district library, a district hospital ^[2] .

As of 2002, the village population was 522 people ^[2] .