Chonuu

Village Chonuu Хонуу coat of arms Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Moma Founded 1851 population 2476 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 195  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41 150 Post Code 678860 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 233 823 001 Geographical location Coordinates 66 ° 27 '  N , 143 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 66 ° 27 '15 "  N , 143 ° 13' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Chonuu ( Yakut and Russian Хону́у ; also Chonu ) is a village (selo) in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia with 2476 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is good 800 km in a straight line to the northeast of the Republic capital of Yakutsk in Moma Selennyakh River Valley between the Momagebirge in the Northeast and the chersky range in the Southwest. It is located at the mouth of the Moma in the Indigirka , on the right bank.

Chonuu is the administrative center of Ulus Momski . The village is the seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Momski nazionalny nasleg, which also includes the village of Suon-Tit (2 km southeast).

history

The village was founded in 1851, when a Russian Orthodox church was built there as a settlement center in the area sparsely populated by Yakuts and Evens . Since 1931 Chonuu has been the administrative seat of an ulus ( Rajons ) in its present form.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	403
1959	768
1970	1462
1979	2173
1989	3057
2002	2494
2010	2476

Note: census data

traffic

Chonuu is not connected to the fixed road network. It is located on a winter slope that partly follows the ice of the Indigirka river down from Ust-Nera . Another piste leads in a south-easterly direction over a good 200 km through the Momatal to the village of Sassyr . The Indigirka is considered navigable again below the rapids when it breaks through the Tscherski Mountains from Chonuu.

The small Moma airport ( ICAO code UEMA ) is located on the northeastern outskirts of Chonuu .

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. ↑ Momski nasleg in the official information portal of the Republic of Sakha (Russian)