Where is Muhosransk

Muhosransk is a common synonym for a remote, provincial city located somewhere in the wilderness of the castle. It undoubtedly ranks next to such famous cities as Uryupinsk, Alupka and Kryzhopol.

Here only there is one small difference - Muhosransk, as by the way, and Tmutarakan, a city invented.
He is not on any map of our vast homeland. So where did this name come from, so often used by simple (mostly metropolitan) residents, and in the media for the negative designation of some remote settlement?

It turns out that this name appeared due to the writer-
feuilletonist Vasily Loktyu, better known under the pseudonym of A. Zorich. The first mention of Muhosranske appeared in his story "How was the matter":

"When they made up the tenth map of the empire in 1862, this city did not really mean it. But then the fly crawled and made a point. They began to measure this point and, it turns out,
straight to our city the fly did: such neat was the fly, all degrees were observed, and the latitude and longitude. Well, of course, it's a pity to spoil the map, then the designation was assigned, and the city became a town. "

By the way, many consider this word offensive and hope that in connection with the adoption in 2012 of amendments to the federal law "On the protection of children from information,
causing harm to their health and development ", the word" Muhosransk "may disappear from the air of TV channels and the media.

Despite the fact that there is no real Muhosranska, the well-known city has "relatives". So a small settlement in Leninsk-
Kuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region is called Musokhrano by the name of the peasants who founded it in the 17th century.