Olenjok (place)

Village Olenjok Оленёк ( Russian ) Өлөөн ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Olenjok population 2273 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 127  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41169 Post Code 678480 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 242 837 001 Geographical location Coordinates 68 ° 30 '  N , 112 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 68 ° 30 '15 "  N , 112 ° 26' 50"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Olenjok ( Russian Оленёк , Yakut Өлөөн / Ölöön) is a village (Selo) in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Siberia ( Russia ). It is the administrative center of the Evenki National Rajon Olenjok and has 2273 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). Olenjok is located on the left bank of the river of the same name , which flows into the Laptev Sea, almost 1,100 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the republic capital Yakutsk . In Olenjok there is a museum on the history and ethnography of the peoples of the Russian north . Temperatures in Olenjok can reach −60 ° C in winter. The place is on the planned Anabar highway .

On December 16, 1957, the Yakut singer Natascha Dokalowa (1957-2010) was born in Olenjok .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	471
1959	749
1970	1310
1979	1811
1989	2133
2002	2228
2010	2273

Note: census data

literature

• A. Gorkin and others: Geografija Rossii: Enziklopeditscheski slowar . Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-85270-276-5 , p. 421. (Russian)

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)