Mogzon, Khiloksky District, Zabaykalsky Krai
Mogson (Russian Могзон ) is an urban-type settlement in the region, Transbaikalia in Russia with 3856 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The village is located about 110 km as the crow west-southwest of the regional capital of Chita mainly on the right bank of the Khilok, immediately upstream of the confluence of the right inflow Chila. The Khilok there flows in a wide valley between the Jablonowygebirges the south and the Zagan - Churtei Mountains in the north, around 1500 m high in the field both.
Mogson belongs to Rajon Chilokski and is located 110 km east-northeast of good whose administrative center Khilok. The settlement is the seat of the municipality Mogsonskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the villages Sagarino (20 km west-southwest ) and Uljotka (12 km west-southwest ) belong.
History
In the 19th century, the Buryat settlement Mokson and the healing source Chilinski Arschan ( Mogsonski Arschan later) were located close to the local situation today. As from 1895, the Trans-Siberian Railway was passed, there arose a greater Baustützpunkt and the station Arschan. A little later, the station was moved to its present location and was awarded as the resulting settlement with her today, style similar to the old Buryat name names. Since 1938 Mogson has the status of an urban-type settlement.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Traffic
Mogson is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Route 6054 km from Moscow), which was electrified on this section in 1974. Since the 1980s, the project of a 700 -kilometer cross-connection of the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Baikal - Amur Mainline (BAM ) in Nowy Uojan exists, according to a variant starting from Mogson. With the construction of the first section of line from Mogson, initially through the valley of Chila, up to about 100 km away lead- zinc deposit in Osjorninskoje Sosnowo - Oserskoje in the neighboring Republic of Buryatia first beginning of the 1990s began. According to the plans of 2008, this section should then be completed by 2012, but the track construction was frozen again due to lack of funding.
A road leads north to Sosnowo - Oserskoje, as well as in the south - unpaved part - about the Jablonowygebirge for remote road R258 Baikal (Irkutsk - Ulan- Ude - Chita ) at Uljoty.