Eldikan

Urban-type settlement Eldikan Эльдикан ( Russian ) Элдьикээн ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Ust-Maja Founded 1941 Urban-type settlement since 1948 population 1515 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 145  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41141 Post Code 678623 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 254 564 Geographical location Coordinates 60 ° 47 '  N , 135 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 60 ° 46 '30 "  N , 135 ° 9' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Eldikan ( Russian Эльдикан ; Yakut Элдьикээн ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia with 1,515 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 320 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the republic capital Yakutsk .

Eldikan belongs to Ulus Ust-Maiski and is located a good 50 km northeast of its administrative center Ust-Maja . The settlement is the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Eldikan, which also includes the village 8-j km ("8th kilometer", about 7 km southwest of the settlement center on the right bank of the Aldan).

history

The settlement was founded in 1941 by a pier at Aldan, the starting point for the development of the eastern part of the territory in the catchment areas of the rivers Yudoma River and Allach-Jun nearby gold fields should be. Eldikan has had urban-type settlement status since 1947. In 1948, the administrative seat of the eastern part of the Allach-Jun settlement, which was spun off from the Ust-Maiski rajon as Allach-Junski rajon in 1940, was relocated to Eldikan. With the reintegration of the Rajons, Eldikan lost its administrative function in 1953.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	3096
1970	3353
1979	2974
1989	2963
2002	2119
2010	1515

Note: census data

traffic

Eldikan is the starting point of a more than 300 km long, year-round drivable road through the gold mining areas in the east of the Ulus to Jugorjonok on the Judoma, with branches to all mining settlements in the area. During the ice-free period, the settlement itself can only be reached by ship on the Aldan and in winter via an ice road on the river. A road from Chandyga (on the R504 Kolyma Nizhny Bestjach  - Magadan ; until 2017 alternatively M56 ) up the right bank of the Aldan is planned; the first section to Jebariki-Chaja has been under construction since 2009. A winter road to the left of the Aldan also connects the settlement with the Ulus center Ust-Maja and further with Amga , about 300 km away , from where a fixed road leads to Nizhny Bestjach near Yakutsk, the shortest connection to the republic's capital.

The small airport ( ICAO code UEQL ) southwest of the town on the banks of the Aldan is currently not regularly served.

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)