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Ust Kut

Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
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About Ust Kut

Ust-Kut is a city and the place of work of Ust-Kutsky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, placed 961 kilometers from Irkutsk, the place of work of the oblast. Located on a western loop of the Lena River, the metropolis spreads out for over 20 kilometers along the left financial institution, near the factor in which the Kuta River joins from the west. It changed into based in 1631 by Siberian Cossack ataman Ivan Galkin, who built an ostrog citadel there. The fort's military significance declined within the latter half of the 17th century; but, the agreement was increasingly more important as a river port, turning into one of the important starting factors for alternate alongside the Lena.
Mineral springs to the west of the town have been reportedly found as early because the seventeenth century with the aid of Yerofey Khabarov and a spa was built on the website online in 1925. In the early 20th century Ust-Kut served as a destination for political exiles, most extensively Leon Trotsky. In 1951, the railway from Tayshet reached Ust-Kut. The city as a consequence have become the primary and handiest river port at the Lena served by using the railway and an vital railhead thru which cargoes ought to travel to and from the locations along the Lena, such as maximum of Yakutia.
Ust-Kut turned into granted city reputation in 1954, with the merger of the unique agreement of Ust-Kut and the river port suburb of Osetrovo. Ust-Kut remained the cease of the line until 1974, whilst construction work commenced to increase the railway, now referred to as the Baikal–Amur Mainline, east closer to Lake Baikal and beyond. The metropolis became the headquarters of the construction of the western section of the BAM.
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