Swetly (Sacha)

Urban-type settlement Swetly Светлый ( Russian ) Сибиэтлэй ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Mirny head Dmitri Sitnyansky Urban-type settlement since 1984 population 3137 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 330  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41136 Post Code 678196 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 231 557 Geographical location Coordinates 63 ° 3 '  N , 113 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 63 ° 3 '0 "  N , 113 ° 28' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Swetly ( Russian Све́тлый , Yakut Сибиэтлэй ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) with 3137 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located on the southern edge of the Wiljuiplateau belonging to the Central Siberian mountainous region , about 850 kilometers west of the republic capital Yakutsk as the crow flies , not far from the right bank of the Lena tributary, Wiljui . A little below the village the tributary Otschtschugui-Botuobuja flows in from the right .

Swetly belongs to the Mirny district , from whose administrative center Mirny it is a good 60 kilometers in a north-westerly direction.

history

The settlement was created in the late 1970s in connection with the construction of another dam and hydropower plant on the Wiljui below the large Wiljui reservoir . In 1984 urban-type settlement status was given. The place name stands for light in Russian ; the Yakut name Sibietlej is a form of the Russian word adapted to Yakut phonology .

After a long construction delay due to the economic crisis in the period of the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s and in the 1990s, the power plant was only commissioned between 2004 and 2008 with three of the four planned turbines.

Population development

year	Residents
1989	4550
2002	3546
2010	3137

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The building company is the Wiljui-3 hydropower plant (Wiljuiskaja GES-3) with a capacity of 270  megawatts ( the two expansion stages of the power plant on the Wiljui reservoir near Chernyshevsky are considered to be the Wiljui-1 and Wiljui-2 hydropower plants ). The hydropower plant, also known as the Swetly hydropower plant (Swetlinskaja GES) during the construction phase, is operated by a subsidiary of the state-controlled diamond mining company ALROSA . There is also a building materials company. Many residents of the settlement are also employed on a weekly basis in the diamond mines, some of which are far away, or on construction projects in the western part of the Sakha Republic.

A 33-kilometer cul-de-sac leads to the settlement, which branches off the Anabar road between Mirny and Tschernyshevsky. Via Swetly, the Evenk village of Sjuldjukar , located downstream on the Wiljui (25 km northeast), can be reached by boat in summer and via an ice road in winter .

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)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Swetly ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Center for Socio-Economic and Political Monitoring of the Yakut State University (Russian) 
3. ↑ Information on the Mirny Rajon ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the administration's website (in Russian)