Pyotr Beketov was a Russian Cossack zemleprokhodets, an explorer of Siberia and founder of various fortified settlements in the region, which later developed into modern cities such as Yakutsk, Chita,

Nerchinsk is a town and the administrative center of Nerchinsky District in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the left bank of the Nercha River, 7 kilometers above its confluence with the Shilka Ri