Leninsky (Sacha)

Urban-type settlement Leninski Ленинский ( Russian ) Ленинскай ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Aldan Founded 1929 Earlier names Nizhne-Stalinsk, Nizhny Stalinsk (until 1962) Urban-type settlement since 1932 population 1866 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 670  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41145 Post Code 678944 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 203 561 Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 34 '  N , 125 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 34 '15 "  N , 125 ° 26' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

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
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

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)