Brindakit
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Brindakit ( Russian Бриндакит ) is a lost place in the East Siberian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia.
geography
The settlement is in the midst of this central mountain character carrying Yudoma River Maja highlands , about 500 km (distance) southeast of the capital of Republic of Yakutsk in the extreme southeast of the Republic near the border with Khabarovsk . At Brindakit the stream of the same name flows into the river Bam, about 15 kilometers above its mouth into the right Aldan tributary Allach-Jun .
Brindakit belongs to Rajon Ust-Maya . Its administrative center Ust-Maja is 175 kilometers west-northwest of Brindakit at the mouth of the Maja in Aldan.
history
The origin and existence of the place are related to gold mining in the catchment area of the Allach-Jun river.
As early as 1829, the German physicist and geologist Georg Adolf Erman had traveled the area on his world tour on the old route from Yakutsk to Okhotsk and, due to the similarity of the geological structure with the surrounding areas, from which gold discoveries were already known, also for this part of the East Siberian Mountains predicted. There are reports from the 1860s that the trader Sibiryakov was looking for gold in the Allach-Jun region. After major discoveries in the 1910s and 1920s, the systematic exploration of the area began in 1932, initially by the "Trust" Jakutsoloto ("Jakut-Gold") , and later by the all-Soviet Solotoraswedka ("gold exploration") under the direction of Woldemar Bertin. As a result of this successful work, gold mining has commenced in several places, mainly in soap deposits in the river valleys.
The Brindakit settlement was established in 1937. Around 1940 the construction of a road from Eldikan on Aldan began; From the end of the 1940s, gold mining was intensified by the beginning use of heavy technology after the very gold-rich sections of the deposits, which could be mined with simple means, had already been exhausted.
In 1947 Brindakit received urban-type settlement status . From 1947 to 1953, a division of the Dchugdschurlag existed in Brindakit in the system of prison camps of the Gulag . The prisoners worked in mining, logging and expanding the settlement.
On the gold deposit in the valley of the river at Bam Brindakit the largest was in 1956 dragline ( "Dragline") used in the area. During this time, Brindakit was the largest town in the area , along with Ynyktschan further north .
With the exhaustion of the gold deposit on Bam, the production shifted from the 1970s to other parts of the area, for example around the new settlements Solnetschny and Svjosdotschka , while Brindakit initially lost a good half of its inhabitants. With the economic crisis of the 1990s, the temporary cessation of production in the mining operations and the associated supply difficulties, the situation worsened dramatically, so that the settlement together with a few others in the republic was abandoned ("closed") in 1997. This means that the administration was withdrawn, the supply stopped and post and telecommunications facilities were no longer maintained. Although in fact already a ghost town , Brindakit is still an urban-type settlement according to the Russian OKATO key as of September 2012. The population was given in 2008 with five. By the 2010 census, the last inhabitants had left the place; it is no longer listed in the documents.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 1776 |
| 1970 | 1452 |
| 1979 | 869 |
| 1989 | 867 |
| 1997 | 311 |
| 2002 | 15th |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2010 | 0 |
Note : except 1997, 2008 census data
Infrastructure
Brindakit is located on the road that connects the Eldikan, 230 kilometers away, on the right bank of the Aldan 100 kilometers down the river from the Ust-Maja district center, with the settlement of Jugorjonok on the right bank of the Judoma tributary of the Maya . Jugorjonok is a further 40 kilometers from Brindakit and lies on the other side of a nearly 800 meter high pass that is passable from May to November.
In the course of the mostly unpaved road there are fixed bridges over the largest water hazards, which are, however, often affected by floods, most recently in May 2008. The road has no year-round access to the all-Russian road network: the connection from Eldikan to Ust-Maja and on to Amga on the left Aldan tributary of the same name, Amga , from where there is a year-round road to Yakutsk, and of course the ice road on the Aldan is only passable in winter.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vladimir Toporkov: A načalos ʹ vsë s predpoloženij geologa Ėrmana . In: Ilin . tape 44 , no. 3 , 2005 ( And it all started with geologist Erman's guesswork ; Russian; online ).
- ↑ Dschugdschurlag on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
- ↑ Report ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2006 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. of the Audit Office of the Russian Federation on the situation in the closed settlements of the Sakha Republic from 1999 (Russian; RTF)
- ↑ 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 ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2013 on WebCite ) 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. (PDF file; 5.72 MB), pp. 12–209; 11 (PDF file; 16.67 MB), pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
- ↑ Report ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the newspaper Jakutija , May 22, 2008 (Russian)
Web links
- Brindakit private website (Russian, photos )