Babushkin (town)
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Coat of arms of Babushkin

Babushkin (Russian: Ба́бушкин), known as Mysovsk (Мысовск) before 1941, is a town in Kabansky District of the Buryat Republic, Russia, located on the southern shore of the Lake Baikal on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Population: 4,953 (2002 Census); 9,000 (1967).

Babushkin was founded in 1892 as a postal station Mysovaya (Мысовая). It was later renamed Babushkin in honor of a revolutionary Ivan Babushkin, arrested and executed at the Mysovaya station in 1906.

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Coordinates: 51°43′N 105°52′E / 51.717, 105.867

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