Novy Uoyan (Russian: Но́вый Уоя́н; Buryat: Шэнэ Уоян, romanized: Shene Uoian) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located in the basin of the Upper Angara River, 550 kilometers (340 mi) from Ulan-Ude, the capital of the republic.

[2] It was founded in the mid-1970s in conjunction with the construction of the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM), near the settlement of Uoyan on the left bank of the Upper Angara.

[citation needed] The railway station and the settlement were constructed by workers from the then Lithuanian SSR,[10] as sections of the track were given patronage of Komsomol brigades from various parts of the Soviet Union.

[citation needed] Regular traffic on the railway section between Severobaykalsk and Novaya Chara in northern Zabaykalsky Krai began in 1989.

There are proposals to build a 700-to-800-kilometer-long (430 to 500 mi) connection between the BAM and the Trans-Siberian Railway through Buryatia, with a northern terminus at Novy Uoyan, beginning either at Novoilyinsky, or from Mogzon in Zabaykalsky Krai.