Nizhny Bestjach has 3518 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010), has been the administrative seat of Ulus Megino-Kangalasski since 2007 and is located on the M56 "Lena" / "Kolyma" road . A railway line to Nizhny Bestjach, the Amur-Yakut Magistrale , which ends here until further notice, was completed in November 2011. Passenger traffic started in July 2019. On the opposite bank of the Lena is the capital of Sakha, Yakutsk . The Lena is two kilometers wide here, and it can increase fivefold when the snow melts. Yakutsk has no rail connection, and there is no bridge here.
Population development
year
Residents
1979
3363
1989
3997
2002
3327
2010
3518
Note: census data
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)