Almasny

Urban-type settlement Almasny Алмазный ( Russian ) Алмазнай ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Mirny Founded 1960 Urban-type settlement since 1962 population 1527 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 250  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41136 Post Code 678181 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 231 555 Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 27 '  N , 114 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 27 '30 "  N , 114 ° 19' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Almasny ( Russian Алма́зный , Yakut Алмазнай ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) with 1527 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement lies on the border of Lena plateau and Wiljuiplateau , about 800 kilometers as the crow flies west of the Republic capital Yakutsk , at the mouth of Ireljach in Vilyuy River creek Otschtschugui-Botuobuja .

Almasny belongs to the Mirny district , from whose administrative center Mirny it is 20 kilometers in an east-southeast direction. The settlement includes the districts Berjosowka, 11 km west and Nowy, 5 km south.

history

The site was established in 1960 as a housing development for miners after the discovery of diamond deposits in the area in 1954. The current district of Nowy was created in 1954. In 1962 Almasny was given urban-type settlement status. The place name is derived from the Russian word almas for diamond .

Population development

year	Residents
1970	2908
1979	1887
1989	1976
2002	1756
2010	1527

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The main branch of the economy is the extraction of diamonds from soap deposits in the Ireljach river valley with the help of three special large, semi-stationary dredges (Russian: draga ).

Almazny is on the road A331 Vilyuy River , which today connects Mirny and the villages on the middle Vilyuy River with the Republic capital Yakutsk, but with the possible inclusion of the road from Mirny to Lensk at the middle Lena as a connection to the südsibirische road network in the Irkutsk Oblast to be expanded . Six kilometers west of the town branches off the Anabar highway , which leads to the northern diamond mining area around Aichal and Udatschny and is to be extended to the rivers Olenjok and Anabar in the extreme northwest of the Sakha Republic .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Information on the localities ( memento of the original from October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Mirny Raion Administration website (in Russian) 
3. ↑ Almasny ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Center for Socio-Economic and Political Monitoring of the Yakut State University (Russian)  
4. ↑ Draga № 203 on the Irelyach (photo)