Pokrovka (Pervomaisky district)

In the “Oikonomic Dictionary of Altai” by L. M. Dmitrieva the date of foundation of the village is 1886, the name of the inhabitants of the village is associated with the religious holiday Pokrov Day ^[3] .

Despite the information published by the researcher, such a village does not appear on the lists of Siberian districts. In the List of settlements of the Tomsk province for 1893 in the Beloyarskaya and Kosikhinsky volosts there is no settlement with this name.

In the List of Populated Places of the Siberian Territory for 1926, the Pokrovka farm is listed, the foundation date is 1923, in the settlement there are 187 yards ^[4] .

According to the List of settlements of the Altai Territory of the local historian Yu. Bulygin , the earliest documented mention of the existence of the village of Pokrovsky (Pokrovka) in the Pervomaisky district was 1924 ^[5] . Confusion could occur due to the fact that in the Altai Territory there were more than a dozen villages named Pokrovka .

The village is located by the Losikh river.

Climate

The climate is continental. The period with a stable snow cover is 160–170 days; the absolute minimum temperature reaches −50 ° C. The average January temperature is −19.9 ° C, July - +19 ° C. The frost-free period lasts 110-115 days, the absolute maximum of air temperature reaches + 33-35 ° C. The annual amount of precipitation is 360-400 mm ^[6] .

Distance to

• District center Novoaltaysk : 14 km.
• Regional center Barnaul : 25 km.

Street network

There are 8 streets in the village: Berezovaya, Lesnaya, Naberezhnaya, Novaya, Sadovaya, Sibirskaya, Solnechnaya, Tsentralnaya and MTS quarter ^[7] .

Nearest settlements

Bayunovskie Klyuchi 4 km, Sannikovo 10 km, Solnechnoe 10 km, True 10 km, Beryozovka 11 km, Firsovo 11 km, Bazhevo 12 km, Zhilino 13 km, Lesnoy 14 km.

• LLC "GDP" - cattle breeding.
• LLC Legal Approach - activities in the field of law.
• Mariol LLC - construction of buildings and structures, finishing work, retail.
• Stroykom is a manufacturing and commercial company.
• "AKOBF" Good "- the provision of social services.
• SNT “Pokrovskoye”, SNT “KAMAZ”, SNT “Stroitel” - a horticultural, vegetable garden or country house non-profit partnership ^[10] .
• A post office serving Pokrovka settlement is located in the village of Bayunovskie Klyuchi ^[11]
• The village has digital television, mobile communications and the Internet ^[12] .

The village is connected with the district and regional center by the federal highway R-256 Chuysky tract ( Novosibirsk - Biysk - Mongolia ). The nearest railway station Altai is in the city of Novoaltaysk.