Kaimonovo (Ust-Kutsky district)

Geographical position

Kaimonovo is located in the north of the Irkutsk region in the western part of the Ust-Kut district on the left bank of the Kuta River at the confluence of the Kupa River. Some of the buildings and farms are located on the banks of the Kupa. The left tributary of the Kupa, the Kaimonok stream, is named after the village.

Distance:

• to the village of Ruchey (the center of the rural settlement and the nearest settlement) - 10 km
• to the city of Ust-Kut (the center of the district) by road and rail - 70 km, by air - 53 km.

Time Zone

Kaimonovo is located in the Irkutsk time zone : IRKT = UTC + 8. Daylight Saving Time : IRKST = UTC + 9. The time difference with Moscow is 5 hours: MSK +5.

Climate

The climate of the village is sharply continental . The average temperature of January is −25 ° C, July + 17 ° C. The minimum temperature is −58 ° C, the maximum (in the shade) + 42 ° C.

The annual rainfall is 350 mm. In winter - in the form of snow. In the off-season (spring and autumn, as well as at the beginning and end of summer) hail is not uncommon.

The territory of the village is equated to the regions of the Far North .

Relief and geological structure

The village is located on the territory of the Lena-Angarsk plateau, the relief is very dissected, the absolute heights of the area reach 700-800 m above sea level. In the immediate vicinity of the village is Mount Sokoly (625 m above sea level).

Soil cover

Soils are mainly sod-carbonate, sod-podzolic. Meadow and floodplain soils of medium and light loamy texture.

The date of foundation of the village is 1699, when the settlement was first mentioned in the documents of Ilimsk . The founder of the village is Mitka Kayamonov (Kaimonov).

In 1723, there were 2 yards in the village.

The population of Kaimonov was peasant , engaged in plowing land, but there were government duties, primarily related to the maintenance of communications.

In the XVI - XVII centuries, the Caimonians performed the service of serving the Lena Volok . So, in October 1746, a similar order came to the Ust-Kutsk clerk from Ilimsk :

To which the clerk reported:

During the civil war, the residents of Kaimonov took part in the battles for Ust-Kut . October 26, 1919 in Ust-Kut, the White Guards shot several Caimonians who joined the partisan detachment of V.P. Ostashenko. And in February 1920, the White Guard detachments of General Galkin and Ataman Kazakov retreated through Kaimonovo to Maksimovo .

During World War II , a section of the Alsib highway passed over Kaimonov. On July 12, 1943, on the way from Kirensk to Krasnoyarsk , 34 km from the village, one of the distant aircraft crashed - the A-20 Boston light bomber with tail number AF 42-53862 ^{[~ 1]} . The crew consisted of two people - commander Ivan Zalomin and navigator Ivan Maximov. Their remains are now buried in Ust-Kut . The supposed cause of the crash is forest fires and thunderstorms , the speed at the crash is 6,000 km per hour . ^[four]

In 1949, a simple power station was equipped in Kaimonov, electricity first appeared.

The village is named after the founder Mitka Kayamonov (Kaimonov) ^[3] - the original name Kayamonovskaya , later converted to Kaimonov .

• MP "Kaimonovsky LPH" UKMO
• plot of the Autonomous Institution “Caimon Forestry”

The company's activity is mining and processing of wood.

Most of the population is engaged in subsidiary plots.

Railway

Near the village there is a section of the western BAM ( Taishet - Lena railway line). There are three stopping points:

• about. Kaimonovo village (3 km from the village on the right bank of the Kupa )
• about. n. 649th km (directly opposite the village on the right bank of Kuta )
• about. n. 652 km (3 km from the village on the left bank of Kuta )

Electric trains to the cities of Ust-Kut (to the east), Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky , Bratsk (to the west).

The nearest railway station is the Stream of the East Siberian Railway .

Car

The P419 Tulun – Bratsk – Ust-Kut highway (the Vilyuy federal highway being designed) passes right through the village.

Bus service to Ust-Kut and Irkutsk . (The only route is Irkutsk - Ust-Kut .)

Aviation and River

The nearest airport is Ust-Kut . Located 80 km (by road).

The nearest river port is Osetrovo . Located in the city of Ust-Kut .

Satellite payphone.

Cellular communication since 2009 ^[5] .

There is a feldsher-midwife station. The activities of the elementary school were suspended in the 1st half of 2008 due to the absence of students ^[6] . Children receive secondary school education in the village of Ruchey .

• In 2006 , during the preparation of a feature-documentary film about the Decembrists from the series “The Path of Remembrance”, scenes of Kirensk of the 19th century were shot in Kaimonov. Scenes related to the 20th century were shot in the city of Kirensk ^[7] .

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