Tsurukaitu

Tsurukhaitu was a trading post along the Russo-Chinese border north of Beijing during the eighteenth century.

It was never successful because the Kyakhta route was easier than the long trek east from Lake Baikal.

Once the Treaty was completed Sava Vladislavich made elaborate plans for the two new posts, Tsurukhaitu being somewhat smaller.

The site was chosen in 1728 by Temofei Burtsov, a commissar of the Argun silver mines(sic[1]) and a Chinese officer.

Goods were spoiled due to lack of covered storage at the fort, they had difficulty finding laborers and it took all summer to travel west to Irkutsk.