Severomuysk (; , ''Khoyto-Muyayn'') is an urban locality (an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

) in

Muysky District Muysky District (; , ''Muyayn aimag'') is an administrativeResolution #431 and municipalLaw #985-III district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the republic. The area of the dist ...

of the

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, located about southwest of the urban-type settlement of

Taksimo Taksimo (; Buryat and , ''Taksimo'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Muysky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Muya River on the Muysk Plateau in the far northeast of th ...

, the

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of the district. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,198.

Geography

Severomuysk lies directly adjacent to the eastern portal of the Severomuysky rail tunnel, in the valley of the , a left-hand tributary of the Muya River. The valley is bounded to the north by the Severomuysky Range, which is part of the greater

Stanovoy Range The Stanovoy Range (, ''Stanovoy khrebet''; ) is a mountain range located in the Sakha Republic and Amur Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District. It is also known as Sükebayatur and Sükhbaatar in Mongolian language, Mongolian, or the Stanovoy M ...

History

It was founded in the mid-1970s, as part of the construction of the long Severomuysky Tunnel on the

Baikal–Amur Mainline The Baikal–Amur Mainline (, , , ) is a broad-gauge railway line in Russia. Traversing Eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East, the -long BAM runs about 610 to 770 km (380 to 480 miles) north of and parallel to the Trans-Siberian Railway. ...

(BAM). It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1977. As the construction of the tunnel turned out to be more difficult than anticipated, construction was prolonged over twenty years and Severomuysk remained the logistical center for tunnel construction works for far longer than originally intended. With the economic downturn of the 1990s and the completion of the tunnel in 2003, the settlement lost over two thirds of its population.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, the

(inhabited locality) of Severomuysk is incorporated within

as Severomuysk

Urban-Type Settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

Resolution #431 (an administrative division of the district).Law #2433-III As a municipal division, Severomuysk Urban-Type Settlement is incorporated within Muysky Municipal District as Severomuyskoye Urban Settlement.Law #985-III

Economy and infrastructure

The only real source of employment in the settlement is the maintenance of the Severomuysky Tunnel and its associated bypass route.

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=January 2013 Urban-type settlements in Buryatia Populated places in Muysky District