Novy Vasyugan is a village

Village

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 in Kargasoksky District

Kargasoksky District

Kargasoksky District is an administrative and municipal district of Tomsk Oblast, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Kargasok. District's population: Population of Kargasok accounts for 34.5% of the total district population.95.7% of the population are ethnic Russians...

, Tomsk Oblast

Tomsk Oblast

Tomsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Tomsk. Population:...

, Russia

Russia

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. It is the administrative center of the Novovasyuganskogo rural settlement

Rural settlement

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. The village is situated on the Vasyugan River

Vasyugan River

Vasyugan is a river in the southern West Siberian Plain of Russia. It is a tributary of the Ob River on the left side, and its course from its source in the Vasyugan Swamp is entirely within the Kargasok district of Tomsk Oblast.- Statistics :...

and is 370 km (229.9 mi) from Kargaska.

The population of the rural settlement is 2,579 residents.

The town was founded in 1933 as a settlement for convicts and initially called Mogilny Yar. Until 1959, the village was the administrative center of the Vasyuganskoye area, which then became part of Kargasoksky district.

The Novovasyuganskogo rural settlement also includes the village of Aypolovo. The head of the rural settlement is Alexander R. Kergand.