Artyk (Sacha)

Urban-type settlement Artyk Артык ( Russian ) Аартык ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Oymyakon Urban-type settlement since 1957 population 509 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 700  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 41154 Post Code 678735 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 239 553 Geographical location Coordinates 64 ° 11 '  N , 145 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 64 ° 10 '45 "  N , 145 ° 7' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Artyk ( Russian А́ртык ; Yakut Аартык ) is an urban-type settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia with 509 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 800 km as the crow flies east-northeast of the republic capital Yakutsk on the right bank of the Indigirka tributary Nera , directly above the confluence of the Artyk tributary, which gives it its name.

Artyk belongs to Ulus Oimjakonski and is located about 100 km east-southeast of its administrative center Ust-Nera . The settlement is the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Artyk, which also includes the village of Deljankir (formerly Dorozhny ), about 45 km southeast of the junction of the Nera source rivers Deljankir and Khujach directly on the border with Magadan Oblast .

The district of Deljankir is one of the coldest places in the northern hemisphere next to Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk , although not according to the absolute minimum temperature, but the long-term annual average temperature (1951–1989) at the weather station there was -16.8 ° C, still below that of Oymyakon.

history

The settlement was founded at the end of the 1930s in connection with the construction of the junction from the Kolymatrasse to Ust-Nera. Artyk has had urban-type settlement status since 1957.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	2898
1970	2792
1979	1924
1989	2420
2002	633
2010	509

Note: census data

traffic

Chandyga is on the R504 Kolyma trunk road , which connects Nizhny Bestjach near Jakutsk with Magadan (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017).

Web links

• Artyk amateur video (summer 2011, Russian)

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. ↑ RN Ivanova: Rekordno nizkie temperatury v Evrazii. In: Vestnik JaGU. 3/2006. Pp. 13–19 ( online , Russian)