Sosnovka, Sakha Republic Explained

En Name:Sosnovka
Ru Name:Сосновка
Other Name:Сосновка
Other Lang:Sakha
Coordinates:63.8789°N 121.6169°W
Map Label Position:right
Federal Subject:Sakha Republic
Adm District Jur:Vilyuysky District
Adm Selsoviet Jur:Vilyuysk Urban Okrug
Adm Selsoviet Type:Urban okrug
Inhabloc Cat:Rural locality
Inhabloc Type:Selo
Mun District Jur:Vilyuysky Municipal District
Mun District Jur Ref:[1]
Rural Settlement Jur:Vilyuysk Urban Settlement
Pop 2010Census:303

Sosnovka (Russian: Сосновка; Yakut: Сосновка) is a rural locality (a selo), and one of two settlements in Vilyuysk Urban Okrug of Vilyuysky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in addition to Vilyuysk, the administrative center of the Urban Okrug and the district. It is located 13km (08miles) from Vilyuysk. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 303,[2] of whom 166 were male and 137 female, up from 267 recorded during the 2002 Census was 267.[3]

History

This settlement's village hall is said to be the remains of a leper hospital inspired by the British explorer Kate Marsden who travelled the length of Russia to find a cure for leprosy she had been told about. Marsden never said what the herb was. The heir apparent is now said to be a herb called kutchutka which was mentioned in an 1899 Sakha dictionary. One local herbalist told researchers in 2008 that it was so rare that he had not seen it recently. The researchers found the buildings that had made up the leprosarium that had closed in 1962. The village hall carries a plaque recording the centenary of Marsden's visit.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Law #173-Z 353-III
  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 (Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities)
  3. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic
  4. Aston. Felicity. Searching for a miracle. Geographical.co.uk. September 2008. 35–38. 27 February 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130805155618/http://www.felicityaston.co.uk/images/katemarsden.pdf. August 5, 2013. mdy-all.