Pervomayskoye

Pervomayskoye was formerly known as Pyshkino-Troitskoye, on the Chulym in western Siberia. Before the Russian settlement, a community known as Pyshkiny yurts stood here, named for a Chulym leader or clan head called Pyshka. The site lay on a promontory between the Chulym and the Kuyendat. Russian settlement followed an instruction to establish fortified places and churches along the Chulym, within a river country already inhabited by local communities.