Yuryung-Khaya

Yuryung-Khaya Юрюнг-Хая Үрүҥ Хайа (Sakha)
Selo [1]
Street scene, Yuryung-Khaya
Location of Yuryung-Khaya
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Coordinates: 72°48′43″N113°13′56″E / 72.81194°N 113.23222°E / 72.81194; 113.23222
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Sakha Republic [1]
Administrative district	Anabarsky District [1]
Rural okrug	Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Okrug [1]
Founded	1930
Elevation	25 m (82 ft)
Population  (2010 Census) [2]
• Total	1,148
• Estimate  (January 2016) [3] [4]	1,120
Administrative status
•  Capital of	Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Okrug [1]
Municipal status
•  Municipal district	Anabarsky Municipal District [5]
• Rural settlement	Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Settlement [5]
•  Capital of	Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Settlement [5]
Time zone	UTC+9 (MSK+6   [6] )
Postal code(s) [7]	678431
OKTMO ID	98610424101

Yuryung-Khaya (Russian : Юрюнг-Хая, Yakut : Үрүҥ ХайаÜrüŋ xaya) is a rural locality (a selo ), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Okrug of Anabarsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 160 kilometers (99 mi) from Saskylakh, the administrative center of the district.

Its population as of the 2010 Census was 1,148, ^[2] of whom 552 were male and 596 female, up from 1,051 recorded during the 2002 Census. ^[1] Yuryung-Khaya is the only settlement in the Sakha Republic with a population composed mainly of Dolgans, and also the only substantial population of Dolgans outside the Krasnoyarsk Kray.

Geography

View of Yuryung-Khaya from the Anabar River

The village is situated on the right bank of the Anabar River, shortly before it flows into the Laptev Sea.

Climate

Owing to the extreme northern location Yuryung-Khaya has a cold and dry polar climate (Köppen ET) with severely cold winters and cool summers.

Climate data for Anabar River near Yuryung-Khaya (73°13N, 113°30E)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Daily mean °C (°F)	−32.7 (−26.9)	−32.9 (−27.2)	−28.1 (−18.6)	−18.7 (−1.7)	−7.7 (18.1)	3.3 (37.9)	8.9 (48.0)	7.3 (45.1)	1.2 (34.2)	−11.5 (11.3)	−24.4 (−11.9)	−30.3 (−22.5)	−13.8 (7.2)
Source: normals_1991_2020

History

The village was founded in 1930 as part of Soviet efforts to settle the nomadic indigenous inhabitants of the region. The village's name means White Mountain in the Yakut and Dolgan languages.

Economy and infrastructure

The village economy is based around agriculture, specifically reindeer herding, fishing and other farming. It is reachable via a winter road leading upstream along the Anabar to Saskylakh.

References

Notes

1. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic
2. Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census. Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities) (in Russian)
3. Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность населения по районам республики на 1 января 2016 года Archived September 29, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Population of the districts of the republic on January 1, 2016(in Russian)
4. The results of the 2016 estimate are given for xxx Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of xxx Municipal District. According to Law #173-Z 353-III, xxx is the only inhabited locality on the territory of xxx Rural Settlement.
5. Law #173-Z 353-III
6. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
7. Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)

Sources

• Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Anabarsky District Archived April 27, 2017, at the Wayback Machine . (in Russian)
• Государственное Собрание (Ил Тумэн) Республики Саха (Якутия). Закон №173-З №353-III от 30 ноября 2004 г. «Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом городского и сельского поселений муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)», в ред. Закона №1058-З №1007-IV от 25 апреля 2012 г. «О внесении изменений в Закон Республики Саха (Якутия) "Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом городского и сельского поселений муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)"». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Якутия", №245, 31 декабря 2004 г. ( State Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic . Law #173-Z No. 353-III of November 30, 2004 On Establishing the Borders and on Granting the Urban and Rural Settlement Status to the Municipal Formations of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, as amended by the Law #1058-Z No. 1007-IV of April 25, 2012 On Amending the Law of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic "On Establishing the Borders and on Granting the Urban and Rural Settlement Status to the Municipal Formations of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic". Effective as of the day of the official publication.).
• McKnight, Tom L; Hess, Darrel (2000). "Climate Zones and Types". Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN   0-13-020263-0.

External links

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