Mogson (Chilokski)

Urban-type settlement Mogson Mogzon Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Chilokski Earlier names Mokson, Arshan Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 3856 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 910  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30237 Post Code 673240 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 247 554 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 45 '  N , 111 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '30 "  N , 111 ° 57' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Mogson ( Russian Могзо́н ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 3856 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 110 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the regional capital Chita, mainly on the right bank of the Chilok , immediately above the confluence of the right tributary Chila. The Chilok flows there in a wide valley between the Jablonowy Mountains in the south and the Zagan-Churtei Mountains in the north, both of which are 1500  m high in the area .

Mogson belongs to Rajon Chilokski and is well 110 km east-northeast of the administrative center Khilok . The settlement is the seat of the municipality of Mogsonskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the villages Sagarino (20 km west-southwest) and Ulyotka (12 km west-southwest).

history

In the 19th century, the Buryat settlement Mokson and the medicinal spring Chilinski Arshan (later Mogsonski Arshan) were not far from the present location . When the Trans-Siberian Railway passed by from 1895 , a larger construction base and Arshan station were built there. A little later, the station was relocated to its current position and, like the settlement it developed, received its current name based on the old Buryat name. Mogson has had urban-type settlement status since 1938.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6866
1959	9194
1970	6807
1979	6476
1989	6368
2002	4455
2010	3856

Note: census data

traffic

Mogson is on the Trans-Siberian Railway (6054 km from Moscow ), which was electrified on this section in 1974 . Since the 1980s, there has been a project of a 700-kilometer cross-link from the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) near Novy Uojan , based on a variant based on Mogson. With the construction of the first line section from Mogson, initially through the valley of Chila, up to about 100 km from the lead - zinc -Lagerstätte Osjorninskoje at Sosnowo-Oserskoje in the neighboring Republic of Buryatia in the early 1990s, was first started. According to plans from 2008, this section should then be completed by 2012, but the route construction was frozen again due to a lack of funding.

A road leads north to Sosnovo-Oserskoye, and in a south direction - partly unpaved - over the Jablonowy Mountains to the R258 Baikal ( Irkutsk  - Ulan-Ude  - Chita) near Ulyoty .

sons and daughters of the town

• Wiktor Oparin (* 1951), geophysicist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Mogson in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)
3. ↑ Sergei Michaljow: Rudny put. In: Gudok ( RŽD daily newspaper ), October 16, 2008 (Russian)