Chandyga

Urban-type settlement Chandyga Хандыга ( Russian ) Хаандыга ( Yakut ) flag Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Tompo Founded 1938 Urban-type settlement since 1957 population 6638 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41153 Post Code 678720 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 250 551 Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 39 '  N , 135 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 39 '0 "  N , 135 ° 34' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Chandyga ( Russian Ха́ндыга ; Yakut Хаандыга ) is an urban-type settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia with 6638 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 300 km as the crow flies east of the republic capital Yakutsk . It is located on the right bank of the largest Lena tributary, the Aldan , a good 10 km below the confluence of the Eastern Chandyga (Vostochnaja Chandyga) and above the tributary of the Amga .

Khandyga is the administrative center of Raion Tomponski . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Chandyga.

history

The settlement was founded in 1938 at a pier on Aldan as the starting point for the Kolyma trunk road towards Magadan . Until 1954 it was the location of various labor camps in the Gulag system , including the Janstroi camp.

In 1954 the place became the administrative seat of the enlarged Tomponski rajon, founded in 1931. Chandyga has had urban-type settlement status since 1957.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	4049
1970	5703
1979	7176
1989	9536
2002	7025
2010	6638

Note: census data

traffic

Chandyga is on the R504 Kolyma trunk road , which connects Nizhny Bestjach near Jakutsk with Magadan (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017). There is no bridge over the Aldan, instead there is a ferry connection a good 30 km downstream, in the area of ​​the Amga estuary. In 2009, construction began on a road that will lead up the right bank of the Aldan via Jebariki-Chaja to Eldikan . The 50 km long section to Dschebariki-Chaja is currently under construction, during which a nearly 400 m long bridge over the Eastern Chandyga was opened in September 2011.

The small Chandyga airport ( ICAO code UEMH ) is located about 70 km northeast of the town near the settlement of Tjoply Klyuch on the right bank of the Eastern Chandyga.

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)
2. ^ Chandyga on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
3. ↑ Message on the website of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Sakha (Russian)