Berkakit

Urban-type settlement Berkakit Беркакит flag coat of arms Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Nerjungri Founded 1975 Urban-type settlement since 1977 population 4291 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 790  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41147 Post Code 678990 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 406 552 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 35 '  N , 124 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 34 '30 "  N , 124 ° 46' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Berkakit ( Yakut and Russian Беркаки́т ) is an urban-type settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia with 4291 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 670 km as the crow flies south-south-west of the republic capital Yakutsk in the southern part of the Aldan highlands on the eponymous Maly Berkakit (Little Berkakit), a right tributary of the Aldan tributary Chulman .

Berkakit belongs to the Neryungrinsky district and is located about 10 km south of its administrative center Neryungri . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Berkakit.

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  Berkakit train station

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  Monument to the builders of BAM

history

The settlement was founded in 1975 in connection with the construction of the "Small BAM " Bamowskaja - Tynda  - Neryungri (today the southern section of the Amur-Yakut Magistrale , AJaM). Berkakit has had urban-type settlement status since 1977.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	4599
1989	9031
2002	4925
2010	4291

Note: census data

traffic

Berkakit is located at route km 430 (from Skovorodino ) of the Amur-Yakut Railway Main Line (AJaM), which connects the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Main Line (BAM) with Nizhny Bestjach not far from the Yakut capital of Yakutsk (also line km 0 in the direction of Nizhny Bestjach ).

To the east, Berkakit is bypassed by the A360 Lena trunk road (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017), which also connects Newer on the Amur trunk road with Nizhny Bestjach.

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)