Sangar (Sacha)
Urban-type settlement
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Sangar ( Russian Санга́р ; Yakut Сангаар ) is an urban-type settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia with 4,377 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 240 km as the crow flies north-northwest of the republic capital Yakutsk in the Central Yakut lowlands . It is located on the right bank of the Lena , about 10 km above the confluence of the Chochuma tributary . To the southeast of the village, the 430 m high mountain Baatal-Chajata rises above the otherwise mostly flat Lena valley in this area .
Sangar is the administrative center of Ulus Kobjaiski . The settlement is the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Sangar, which also includes the villages of Aviaport (4 km northwest) and Smoroditschny (a good 3 km southeast, both on the Lenaufer).
history
The settlement was founded in 1928 in connection with the beginning of the development of a hard coal deposit. Sangar has had urban-type settlement status since 1940. In 1959 the administrative seat of the ulus was moved from Kobjai village to Sangar.
As a result of the cessation of coal mining in the 1990s, more than half of the residents left the place.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 4,900 |
1970 | 6,685 |
1979 | 10,252 |
1989 | 10,107 |
2002 | 4,789 |
2010 | 4,377 |
Note: census data
traffic
Sangar is not connected to the fixed road network; There is only a connection to the places of the community. In the ice-free time there is a ship connection on the Lena; in winter an ice road is created on the river. The town's airport near the village of Awiaport ( ICAO code UEMS ) is currently not regularly served.
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)