Novy Vasyugan (russian: Новый Васюган) is a

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(a '' selo'') in

Kargasoksky District Kargasoksky District (russian: Каргасо́кский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #271-OZ and municipalLaw #201-OZ district (raion), one of the sixteen in Tomsk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northern, western, and southwester ...

Tomsk Oblast Tomsk Oblast (russian: То́мская о́бласть, ''Tomskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative ...

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, located on the

Vasyugan River The Vasyugan (russian: Васюга́н) is a river in the southern West Siberian Plain of Russia. It is a tributary of the Ob on the left side, and its course from its source in the Vasyugan Swamp is entirely within the Kargasok district of Tom ...

from Kargasok, the

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of the district. Population: 2,265 (2012 est.).Administration of Tomsk Oblast. ' (as of 2012), p. 14

History

It was founded in 1933 as a settlement for convicts and was initially called Mogilny Yar (). Until 1959, it served as the administrative center of Vasyugansky District, which was later merged into

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Tomsk Oblast