Tschulman ( Yakut and Russian Чульман ) is an urban-type settlement with 9766 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), about 30 km from Neryungri . The settlement lies on the river Tschulman of the same name , a tributary of the Timpton in the catchment area of the Siberian river Lena . Tschulman has an airport and is a station on the Amur-Yakut highway . The most important economic sectors include the mining of coal, granite and precious stones. There is a thermal power station near the city . But textiles and food are also produced in the city.
The place was founded in 1926 with 19 residents. In the late 1940s and early 1950s there was a Gulag labor camp near Tschulman . The workers there built, among other things, housing estates and production facilities in the village and explored the coal deposits.
Population development
year
Residents
1959
6.133
1970
6,576
1979
12,875
1989
17,354
2002
10,782
2010
9,766
Note: census data
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)