Angasolka is a settlement at the station in the Slyudyansky District of the Irkutsk Region. It is part of the Kultuk municipal formation.GeographyLocated on the Trans-Siberian Railway (station Angasolka, VSZhD) on the left bank of the river Right Angasolka in the southern part of the Olkhinsky plateau, 2 km east of the federal highway P258 "Baikal", 6 km north-west of the settlement Angasolskaya, located on the shore of Lake Baikal. The name Angasolka comes from the drill. Ongoso is a "boat, a ship".
HistoryIn the late 1940s, during the construction of the new Irkutsk-Slyudyanka railway line, the Mostransproject party, which was engaged in research of stone material for track gravel, surveyed outcrops near the road along the left bank of the Right Angasolka River. On the basis of these works, production was built, after several expansions the Angasolsky crushed stone plant was formed. The continuous exploitation of the Angasol deposit of granites and pegmatites has been carried out since 1957. In 1949 the railway station of Angasolka was put into operation.
In 1960, near the Angasolsky crushed stone plant and the station of Angasolka on the Trans-Siberian Railway, a settlement settlement was built, called Angasolka.
Since July 2008, Angasolsky crushed stone plant is a subsidiary of OAO "First Non-metallic Company", established on the basis of Russian Railways.