Putyatin Island
The island is located in the south of Primorye in the Gulf of Strelok near the village of Danube.
The island was first described and mapped by the crew of the clipper "Strelok" in 1858. The sailors named the island after the Russian admiral, diplomat and statesman Evfimii Putyatin.
The island remained uninhabited until 1891, until the son of the Decembrist Nikolai Bestuzhev, one of the first industrialists of the Far East, a merchant of the 1st guild Alexei Startsev, moved here. He founded his own estate on the island, built a brick and porcelain factory, a workshop for the manufacture of silk. Startsev was engaged in breeding horses, organized a deer farm, a snake nursery, an apiary, vineyards and orchards. The estate flourished until the death of Startsev in 1900. It gradually declined and was nationalized after the revolution. In Soviet times, a fish factory was located on the island, next to which an island village was formed. Now the population of the village of Putyatin is about 600 people.
The picturesque coast of the island is known for its bizarre rock formations: five-finger kekurs, rocks Rooster, Elephant, Dragon.
The island forests are famous for a large number of edible mushrooms and berries - at the end of summer, many Primorye people purposefully go to Putyatin "for mushrooms."
