En Name: | Yuryung-Khaya |
Ru Name: | Юрюнг-Хая |
Other Name: | Үрүҥ Хайа |
Other Lang: | Sakha |
Coordinates: | 72.8119°N 113.2322°W |
Map Label Position: | bottom |
Federal Subject: | Sakha Republic |
Adm District Jur: | Anabarsky District |
Adm Selsoviet Jur: | Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Okrug |
Adm Selsoviet Type: | Rural okrug |
Adm Ctr Of: | Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Okrug |
Inhabloc Cat: | Rural locality |
Inhabloc Type: | Selo |
Mun District Jur: | Anabarsky Municipal District |
Mun District Jur Ref: | [1] |
Rural Settlement Jur: | Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Settlement |
Mun Admctr Of: | Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Settlement |
Pop 2010Census: | 1,148 |
Pop Latest: | 1120 |
Pop Latest Date: | January 2016 |
Pop Latest Ref: | [2] [3] |
Established Date: | 1930 |
Postal Codes: | 678431 |
Yuryung-Khaya (Russian: Юрюнг-Хая, Yakut: Үрүҥ Хайа Ürüŋ 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 160km (100miles) from Saskylakh, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 1,148,[4] of whom 552 were male and 596 female, up from 1,051 recorded during the 2002 Census.[5]
The village is situated on the right bank of the Anabar River, shortly before it flows into the Laptev Sea.
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.
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.
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.
Owing to the extreme northern location Yuryung-Khaya has a cold and dry polar climate (Köppen ET) with severely cold winters and cool summers.