Syrjanka (Sacha)

Urban-type settlement Syrjanka Zyranka flag coat of arms Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Verkhnekolymsk Founded 1937 Urban-type settlement since 1954 population 3170 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 35  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41155 Post Code 678770 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 215 551 Geographical location Coordinates 65 ° 44 '  N , 150 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 65 ° 44 '0 "  N , 150 ° 53' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Syrjanka ( Russian Зыря́нка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia with 3170 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 1100 km as the crow flies east-northeast of the republic capital Yakutsk in the Kolyma lowlands . It is located on the left bank of the Kolyma directly at the confluence of the Yassachnaja and a good 10 km above the confluence of the Syrjanka river of the same name .

Syrjanka is the administrative center of the Verkhnekolymsky Ulus . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Syrjanka.

history

In 1647 a winter camp, later Ostrog , was built near the village of Verkhnekolymsk , a good 3 km southwest of today's Syrjanka, by Cossacks under Dmitri Syrjan .

In the 1930s, the development of the hard coal deposits described by Iwan Tscherski in 1891 , 40–60 km west of the Syrjanka River, began. In this context, the Syrjanka settlement, as the river was named after the founder of Verkhnekolymsk, was built around the coal loading point on the Kolyma in 1937. The administration of the SyrjanLag in the Gulag penal camp system was located in the settlement .

Since 1954 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement. At the same time it became the administrative seat of the newly formed Ulus ( Rajons ).

Population development

year	Residents
1959	4245
1970	5260
1979	5749
1989	6687
2002	3749
2010	3170

Note: census data

traffic

Syrjanka is not connected to the fixed road network. There is a road connection to the coal deposits located 60 km to the west on the Syrjanka, past the town's small airport ( ICAO code UESU ), just under 10 km from the town. In the ice-free time there is a ship connection on the Kolyma; In winter, an ice road is set up on the river, via which Syrjanka can be reached from the neighboring Magadan Oblast , as well as the towns of Srednekolymsk and Tscherski , which are downstream of the Kolyma .

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. ↑ ITL for river navigation Kolyma-Indigirka in the GULAG internet portal of Memorial Deutschland e. V.