Chandyga
Urban-type settlement
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Chandyga on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
- ↑ Message on the website of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Sakha (Russian)