Bulun (Bulunski)

Former settlement Bulun Булун ( Russian ) Булуҥ ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Bulun Height of the center 40  m Time zone UTC + 9 Geographical location Coordinates 70 ° 45 ′  N , 127 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 70 ° 44 ′ 30 "  N , 127 ° 24 ′ 5"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Bulun ( Russian Булун ; Yakut Булуҥ , Bulung ) is a former settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia .

geography

The settlement was north of the Arctic Circle on the left bank of the Lena, which is over two kilometers wide, at the confluence of the Bulun tributary of the same name . It was located almost 1000 km as the crow flies north of the republic capital Yakutsk and a good 100 km south-southwest of Tiksi , the current administrative seat of Bulunski ulus . Five kilometers upriver lies the Evenk village of Kjussjur on the other side of the Lenaufer .

history

2500 ice fox skins hung to dry by the largest North Siberian fur trader in Bulun (early 20th century)

Nothing is known about the origin of the place. In the second half of the 19th century, the place was the most important Russian settlement point on the lower Lena, despite its fewer than 100 inhabitants . In addition to various commercial institutions, there was a "native administration" ( Russian инородческая управа inorodtscheskaja uprawa ), a church dedicated to the Archangel Michael, and a country school. On June 16, 1924, Bulun became the administrative seat of the Bulunski okrug named after him . On December 10, 1930, the okrug was dissolved and four national rajons were created on its basis , including the Bulunski rajon. Its administration was moved to nearby Kjussjur at the same time, and in 1957 to the now much more important Tiksi. In the same year the place Bulun was given up.

The grave of the Yakut merchant Jakow Sannikow (1844–1908) has been preserved in the village cemetery. He was the grandson of the discoverer Jakow Sannikow and in the 1880s and 1890s supported financially and logistically the polar expeditions of the zoologist Alexander von Bunge (1851–1930) and Eduard von Toll and Fridtjof Nansen , some of which also led via Bulun. In 1913 the ethnologist Oskar Iden-Zeller stayed in town.

Web links

Commons : Bulun  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Fjodorowitsch Sperk: Bulun . In: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона - Enziklopeditscheski slowar Brokgausa i Jefrona . tape 4 a [8]: Бос – Бунчук. Brockhaus-Efron, Saint Petersburg 1891, p. 905 (Russian, full text [ Wikisource ] PDF - The village has only 15 houses and 65 inhabitants…).
2. ^ History of Bulunski ulus on the website of the government of the republic (Russian).
3. ↑ Photo of the tomb (2012)