Shagonar (Russian: Шагона́р; Tuvan: Шагаан-Арыг, romanized: Şagân-Arıg) is a town and the administrative center of Ulug-Khemsky District in the Tuva Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Yenisei River, 124 kilometers (77 mi) west of Kyzyl, the capital of the republic.

[citation needed] Town status was granted to it in 1945.

[citation needed] The original town of Shagonar was engulfed by water in the 1970s due to the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam.

It was rebuilt 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) from the original location.

[1] As a municipal division, Shagonar Town Under District Jurisdiction is incorporated within Ulug-Khemsky Municipal District as Shagonar Urban Settlement.