Babushkin


Babushkin

 

(until 1941, Mysovsk), a city in Kabansk Raion, Buriat ASSR, on the southern shore of Lake Baikal. It has the Mysovaia station on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Population, 9,000 (1967). There is a timber industry enterprise and transshipment of timber from Lake Baikal to the railroad; there is also a rail-welding plant. The city was founded in 1892 as the Mysovaia Postal Station and was renamed in honor of the revolutionary I. V. Babushkin, who was executed by firing squad at the Mysovaia station in 1906.