Petrovsk

Petrovsk lies beside the Sara River southwest of Rostov, on the route towards Pereyaslavl. The village of Petrovskoye is recorded as early as 1207, in the old Rostov country of forests, rivers and cultivated land. In 1777 it was raised to town status as Petrovsk and made the centre of its own district. That district was abolished in 1796, leaving Petrovsk a town within the Rostov district, but the old village remained a place on the road between the two historic centres.