Sredny Vasyugan (russian: Средний Васюган) is a
rural locality
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...
(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 ...
of
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 cen ...
,
Russia
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, located on the left bank of 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 Tomsk ...
near its
confluence
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with the
Varinegan, and from
Kargasok, the
administrative center
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of the district. Population: 1,622 (2012 est.).
[Administration of Tomsk Oblast. ' (as of 2012), p. 14 ] Postal code: 636733.
History
It was first mentioned around 1700. On
Semyon Remezov
Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov (russian: Семён Улья́нович Ре́мезов) (ca. 1642, Tobolsk - after 1720, Tobolsk) was a Russian historian, architect and geographer of Siberia. He is responsible for compiling three collections of map ...
's map of Siberia (1696-1698) it is designated as Vasyugan Yurts. It was later known as Vasyugan Yurt, Yurt Church, Vasyugan, and finally Sredny Vasyugan.
Infrastructure
There is a wharf and an airport in Sredny Vasyugan. Kargasok–
Katylga winter road passes through it.
Facilities include a school, a kindergarten, a cultural center, and a library.
References
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Rural localities in Tomsk Oblast