Severomuysk
Severomuysk (Russian: Северому́йск; Buryat: Хойто-Муяын, Khoyto-Muyayn) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Muysky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located about 90 kilometers (56 mi) southwest of the urban-type settlement of Taksimo, the administrative center of the district.It was founded in the mid-1970s, as part of the construction of the 15-kilometer (9.3 mi) long Severomuysky Tunnel on the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM).With the economic downturn of the 1990s and the completion of the tunnel in 2003, the settlement lost over two thirds of its population.Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement (inhabited locality) of Severomuysk is incorporated within Muysky District as Severomuysk Urban-Type Settlement[1] (an administrative division of the district).[3] The only real source of employment in the settlement is the maintenance of the Severomuysky Tunnel and its associated bypass route.