Mysovsk

The city of Babushkin is located in the Republic of Buryatia, 170 kilometers west of the city of Ulan-Ude, on the southern shore of Lake Baikal, at the mouth of the Mysovka River. Until 1941, the city was called Mysovsk, it is located the Mysovaya railway station.

The city was founded in 1902, but the first settlements appeared on this place in the XVII century, were the evictions of the Ambassadorial Monastery. The “Great Tea Route” passed through the city for several centuries - trade went between Russia, China, Mongolia. Up to 40 thousand tons of tea per year were transported to Russia, and furs, animal skins, salt and other goods were sent in the opposite direction.

In the pre-revolutionary years, through Mysovsk (there was a transit prison), convicts were sent to the Akatuysk penal prison and prisons of Nerchinsk.

In January 1906, the revolutionary I.V. Babushkin and his comrades were shot on the verdict of a military field court at Mysovaya station.

Population: 4,542 (2017).