Atka (Russia)

Urban-type settlement Atka Атка Federal district far East Oblast Magadan Rajon Hasynsky Urban-type settlement since 1953 population 485 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 900  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41342 Post Code 686114 License Plate 49 OKATO 44 219 554 Geographical location Coordinates 60 ° 50 ′  N , 151 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 151 ° 47 ′ 30 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Magadan Oblast

Atka ( Russian А́тка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Magadan Oblast ( Russia ) with 485 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 150 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the Magadan Oblast Administrative Center in the Kolyma Mountains on the eponymous Atka river in the system of the Kolyma tributary Bachaptscha .

Atka belongs to Rajon Chassynski and is located approximately 100 km north-east of the administrative center of Palatka . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Atka.

history

The settlement was founded at the end of the 1930s in connection with the construction of the Kolymatrasse . Atka has had urban-type settlement status since 1953.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	3022
1970	2105
1979	2689
1989	2648
2002	604
2010	485

Note: census data

traffic

Atka is located on the R504 Kolyma highway , which connects Magadan with Nizhny Bestjach near Yakutsk (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017).

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)