Ust-Nera

Urban-type settlement Ust-Nera Усть-Нера ( Russian ) Уус Ньара ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Oymyakonsky Founded 1930s Urban-type settlement since 1950 population 6463 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 41154 Post Code 678730 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 239 551 Geographical location Coordinates 64 ° 34 '  N , 143 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 64 ° 34 '5 "  N , 143 ° 14' 10"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Ust-Nera ( Russian Усть-Нера , Yakut Уус Ньара / Uus Njara ) is an urban-type settlement in the East Siberian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia with 6463 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is the largest town and the administrative center of Oymyakonski ulus .

geography

Ust-Nera is located 870 km northeast of the republic capital Yakutsk , in the Tscherski Mountains at the confluence of the Nera in the central reaches of the Indigirka (the name Ust is derived from the Russian ustje , mouth).

The climate is distinctly highly continental. The place is located in one of the coldest inhabited areas on earth: the "cold pole" Oimjakon is about 125 km south of Ust-Nera as the crow flies .

Ust-Nera is the administrative center of Oimjakonski ulus (corresponding to a Rajon ).

The place is connected by a paved road with the center of the neighboring Magadan Oblast on the Sea of ​​Okhotsk . There is no year-round road connection to Yakutsk. Ust-Nera has an airport ( IATA code USR ) and there is a daily connection to Yakutsk.

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  View of Ust-Nera with the Indigirka

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  Street in Ust-Nera (2011)

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  Industrial park and ruins (2016)

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  1959 flood

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  Ust-Nera in the early 1960s

history

The place was created in connection with the development of gold mining on the Kolyma and Indigirka in the late 1930s. In 1950 it received urban-type settlement status. On June 3, 1954, it took over the function of the administrative seat of the Oimjakonski rajon (Ulus) from the eponymous village of Oimjakon, which had existed since May 20, 1931.

As the seat of the IndigirLag (Indigirka-ITL) labor camp of Dalstroi from 1949 to 1958, Ust-Nera was one of the centers of the Gulag in this part of Siberia.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	10,789
1970	7,820
1979	10,399
1989	12,535
2002	9,457
2010	6,463

Note: census data

economy

The main industry in and around Ust-Nera is gold mining . There are also approaches for the development of tourism (especially mountain tours, also in winter).

See also

• List of cities in the Sakha Republic

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. ↑ IndigirLag on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.

Web links

Commons : Ust-Nera  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website about place and surroundings (Russian)
• Ust-Nera unofficial portal (Russian)