The Muya ( Russian : Муя ) is a left tributary of the Vitim in Buryatia , Russia . It is 365 kilometres (227 mi) long and has a drainage basin of 11,900 square kilometres (4,600 sq mi).
7-531: The area through which the river flows is sparsely populated, the only settlement on the river being Taksimo , with the village of Ust-Muya located where the river flows into the Vitim, nearly opposite from the mouth of the Kuanda in the facing bank. The Muya is navigable for small craft from the Vitim around 70 kilometres (43 mi) to Taksimo. The Muya has lent its name to a number of other geographic features, including
14-623: A valley in Muysky Mountains. Buryats , who had emigrated from the Chara River area, began settling the region in the 1860s, although a number of Evenks already lived there. Modern Taksimo began as the settlement of exile Ivan Barancheyev, who escaped from the settlement of Kirensk in the Lena mining area during rioting in 1905. He gradually wandered along the Vitim River and eventually settled in
21-608: 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 the republic. As of the 2010 Census , its population was 9,438. Taksimo's name comes from the Evenki language and means cup or bowl , possibly because of its location in
28-824: The Northern Muya Range , the Southern Muya Range , the Muya-Kuanda Depression, as well as the local Muya District . The longest tributary of the Muya is the 180 kilometres (110 mi) long Muyakan on the left. This Buryatia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in the Russian Far East is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Taksimo Taksimo ( Russian : Таксимо́ ; Buryat and Mongolian : Таксимо , Taksimo )
35-487: The area of present-day Taksimo in 1910. Barancheyev's outpost became a trading point for stagecoaches, although it was not until 1920 that other families moved to the area and founded the actual settlement. By 1934, the population of the Muysk Plateau exceeded 1,500. With the construction of the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM), the population grew and Taksimo was granted urban-type settlement status in 1989. With
42-527: The district). As a municipal division , Taksimo Urban-Type Settlement and Bambuysky Selsoviet are incorporated within Muysky Municipal District as Taksimo Urban Settlement . Logging and gold mining are conducted in the area around the settlement. The economic importance of the settlement itself is mainly due to the BAM railway . The settlement is the terminus of the electrified western section. It
49-576: The opening of the Severbaykalsk-Taksimo section, Muysky District was created in 1989 with Taksimo as its administrative center . Within the framework of administrative divisions , Taksimo serves as the administrative center of Muysky District . As an administrative division, the urban-type settlement (inhabited locality) of Taksimo is incorporated within Muysky District as Taksimo Urban-Type Settlement (an administrative division of
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