Batagai

Urban-type settlement Batagai Батагай ( Russian ) Баатаҕай ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Verkhoyansk Founded 1939 Urban-type settlement since 1945 population 4,369 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 41165 Post Code 678500 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 216 551 Geographical location Coordinates 67 ° 39 ′  N , 134 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 67 ° 39 ′ 15 "  N , 134 ° 38 ′ 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Batagai ( Russian Батага́й ; Yakut Баатаҕай ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia with 4,369 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is about 670 km in a straight line north-northeast of the Republic capital of Yakutsk on the right bank of Jana and well 50 km east-northeast of the small town Verkhoyansk , one of the "cold poles of the inhabited areas of the world."

Batagai is the administrative center of Verkhoyansky Ulus . The settlement is the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Batagai, which also includes the villages of Sentachan (170 km southeast) and Ust-Tscharky (130 km southeast, on the left bank of the Adytscha ).

Ten kilometers southeast of Batagai is a one-kilometer-long depression, the Batagaika Megaslump , which was formed when the permafrost ground thawed .

history

The settlement was founded in 1939 in connection with the beginning development of tin ore deposits in the area. Batagai has had urban-type settlement status since 1945. In the 1950s, the administrative seat of the Ulus ( Rajons ) was moved from Verkhoyansk to Batagai.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	5821
1970	6318
1979	6414
1989	8385
2002	4589
2010	4369

Note: census data

traffic

Batagai is connected to the mining settlement of Esse-Chaija , 13 km to the south, via an asphalt road . An unpaved road leads up the right Janaufer to Verkhoyansk. The settlement is connected to the Russian road network by a road over the Verkhoyansk Mountains , which is only passable in winter and connects Esse-Chaija with Topolinoje , the end of a side road from the R504 Kolyma ( M56 ). From Batagai the winter slope leads mainly on the Jana ice further north to the Ust-Kuiga settlement , and from there as a year-round road to Deputatski .

There is an airport to the east of the settlement ( IATA airport code BQJ , ICAO code UEBB ).

Since June 2015 there has been a small solar power plant north of the settlement with an output of 1  MW . The power supply was previously only secured by a diesel generator that was constantly dependent on fuel supplies. Today both systems work in parallel.

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)