What is "albazino"

Albazino is a village ( selo) in Skovorodinsky District of Amur Oblast, Russia, noted as the site of Albazin , the first Russian settlement on the Amur River.

Before the arrival of Russians, Albazino belonged to the Daur people - the Mongolic peoples indigenous to this area. The town was originated by prince Albaz as the capital of Solon Khanate ( Sinicized: 索伦汗国).

Later in the 17th century, the town was center of a petty kingdom known as Yagsi ( Manchu: Yaksa; ; ).

In the late 1640s, a team of Russian Cossacks under Yerofey Khabarov arrived to explore Dauria. They were keen to gain a foothold in the proximity of the Amur River and, after several clashes with the Daurs under Prince Albaza or Albaaši ( Sinicized: 阿尔巴西), established a Russian fort of Albazin in 1651. The Russians were defeated here by the Manchus in 1686 (see below). By the Treaty of Nerchinsk the area was assigned to China.

Following the Treaty of Aigun in 1858 a new Amur Cossack stanitsa appeared on the site. A municipal museum is sited among the remains of the 17th-century Russian fort.