Leninsky (Sacha)
Urban-type settlement
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Leninski ( Russian Ле́нинский ; Yakut Ленинскай ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia with 1,866 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 450 km as the crow flies south-southwest of the republic capital Jakutsk in the Aldan highlands . It is located on the river Bolshoi Kuranach (Great Kuranach) in the Aldan system .
Leninski belongs to the Aldansky Rajon and is located 5 km southeast of the Aldan administrative center . The settlement is the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Leninsky, which also includes the urban-type Lebediny settlement (9 km south, on the upper reaches of the Bolshoi Kuranach) and the village Jakokut (17 km east-southeast, on the Aldan tributary Jakokit ).
history
The place was founded in 1929 under the name Nizhne-Stalinsk (also Nizhny Stalinsk ) as a gold prospecting settlement and in 1932 received the status of an urban-type settlement. The name refers to Josef Stalin ; Nizhne- means lower / lower in contrast to the mining settlements Sredne-Stalinsk and Verkhne-Stalinsk , which have now disappeared , and central and upper Stalinsk further upstream. In 1962 the settlement got its current name after Lenin . Since gold mining was abandoned in 1998, the settlement is primarily a residential suburb of the city of Aldan.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 6221 |
1959 | 2793 |
1970 | 2603 |
1979 | 2428 |
1989 | 2662 |
2002 | 2112 |
2010 | 1866 |
Note: census data
traffic
The A360 Lena trunk road from Newer to Nizhny Bestjach near Yakutsk (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017 as an alternative) passes a few kilometers west of Leninski near the city of Aldan, as does the Amur-Yakut Railway Main Line (AJaM), which connects the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM) connects with the Yakut capital.
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)