Yuryung-Khaya Explained

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]

Geography

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

History and demographics

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.

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.

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Law #173-Z 353-III
  2. Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность населения по районам республики на 1 января 2016 года Population of the districts of the republic on January 1, 2016
  3. 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.
  4. 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)
  5. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic