Chit

Chit stands where the Chita River joins the Ingoda, east of Lake Baikal. The Ingoda flows through a valley between mountain ranges before meeting the Onon to form the Shilka, part of the great Amur river system. The settlement took its name from the smaller river; Pyotr Beketov's Cossacks founded it in 1653. After the Decembrist revolt, several of its participants were exiled here from 1827.