Zolotinka
Urban-type settlement
Zolotinka
Золотинка
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Solotinka ( Russian Золоти́нка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia with 552 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is a good 700 km as the crow flies south-southwest of the republic capital Yakutsk on the southern edge of the Aldan highlands . It is located on the right bank of the Cholodnikan river not far from its confluence with the Ijengra , a left tributary of the Timpton .
Solotinka belongs to the Nerjungrinsky Rajon and is located a good 50 km south of its administrative center, Nerjungri . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Solotinka.
history
The settlement was founded in the mid-1970s in connection with the construction of the "Small BAM" Bamovskaya - Tynda - Neryungri. Solotinka has had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1977. The place name, derived from the Russian soloto for gold , means “gold dust particles ” or “gold sheen” and refers to the gold deposits in the area, especially in the Ijengra valley.
After the completion of the railway line in the early 1980s and the widespread cessation of gold mining that soon followed, which did not meet expectations in this part of the region, the majority of the residents left the place.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1979 | 5377 |
1989 | 1065 |
2002 | 566 |
2010 | 552 |
Note: census data
traffic
Solotinka is at route km 372 (from Skovorodino ) of the Amur-Yakut Railway Main Line (AJaM), which connects the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Main Line (BAM) with Nizhny Bestjach not far from the Yakut capital Yakutsk.
A few kilometers to the west, Solotinka is bypassed by the A360 Lena highway (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017), which also connects Newer on the Amur highway with Nizhny Bestjach.
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)