En Name: | Ust-Maya |
Ru Name: | Усть-Мая |
Loc Name1: | Уус Маайа |
Loc Lang1: | Yakut |
Coordinates: | 60.4167°N 167°W |
Map Label Position: | left |
Federal Subject: | Sakha Republic |
Adm District Jur: | Ust-Maysky District |
Adm Selsoviet Jur: | Ust-Maya |
Adm Selsoviet Type: | Settlement |
Adm Ctr Of: | Settlement of Ust-Maya |
Inhabloc Cat: | Urban-type settlement |
Mun District Jur: | Ust-Maysky Municipal District |
Urban Settlement Jur: | Ust-Maya Urban Settlement |
Mun Admctr Of: | Ust-Maya Urban Settlement |
Pop 2010Census: | 2923 |
Established Date: | 1930 |
Current Cat Date: | 1957 |
Postal Codes: | 678620, 678629 |
Ust-Maya population | |
Bodystyle: | width:23.5em; |
Label1: | 2010 Census |
Data1: | 2,923 |
Label2: | 2002 Census |
Data2: | 3,165 |
Label3: | 1989 Census |
Data3: | 3,514 |
Label4: | 1979 Census |
Data4: | 2,990 |
Ust-Maya (Russian: Усть-Ма́я; Yakut: Уус Маайа, Uus Maaya) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, southeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,293.
Ust-Maya is located on the north bank of the Aldan River opposite the mouth of the Maya River. The Sette-Daban mountain range rises to the east of the town.[1]
Ust-Maya was founded in 1930 as a base for gold mining activities on the Allakh-Yun and Yudoma Rivers to the east. It became the administrative center of the newly created Ust-Maysky District in 1931. During World War II, an airfield was built here for the Alaska-Siberian air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.[2] In 1957, Ust-Maya was granted urban-type settlement status.[3] In 1972, the administrative center of the district was moved to Solnechny, where it remained until 1992, when it was moved back to Ust-Maya.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Ust-Maya[4] serves as the administrative center of Ust-Maysky District. As an administrative division, it is, together with one rural locality (the selo of Ust-Yudoma), incorporated within Ust-Maysky District as the Settlement of Ust-Maya. As a municipal division, the Settlement of Ust-Maya is incorporated within Ust-Maysky Municipal District as Ust-Maya Urban Settlement.[5]
There are no year-round roads connecting Ust-Maya with outside world; however, winter roads connect it to Eldikan and Amga.
The Ust-Maya Airport is located in the selo of Petropavlovsk, 8km (05miles) to the southeast.
Ust-Maya has an extreme subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfd). Winters are extremely cold with average temperatures from -43C-35.3C in January, while summers are warm with average temperatures from 12.1C25.4C. Precipitation is quite low and is somewhat higher in summer than at other times of the year.