Pokrovsk, Sakha Republic

Pokrowsk (Russian Покровск, Yakut Покровскай / Pokrowskaj ) is a city in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia ) (Russia) with 9495 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the south of Mitteljakutischen valley, about 75 km southwest of the capital of Republic of Yakutsk on the left bank of the Lena.

The city is Pokrowsk the Republic administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the Rajons ( Ulus ) Hangalasskij.

By Pokrowsk, the road R501, on the last almost 100 kilometers before Yakutsk an alternative route on the opposite bank of Lena extending highway M56 (Lena ).

History

Pokrowsk was of Cossack as Ostrog Karaulny Mys (Russian for Sentinel Cape ) founded in 1682. Later ( ( Preswjatoi Bogoroditsy ) for Intercession after the Russian Orthodox Pokrovsky ) the village Pokrovskoe arose. In 1941, the place under the present name urban-type settlement, 1998, he received city rights.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture, Education and sights

In Pokrowsk the center for northern farming and selection of the Yakut Agricultural Research Institute is established.

Since 1962, there is in place a local museum, which carries since 1992 the name Gavriil Ksenofontows ( 1888-1938 ), which is considered the first Yakut historian, ethnographer and folklorist and victims of Stalin's Great Terror was.

In the village Kjordjom on the opposite bank of Lena is the Nikolsky church. In Ulus there are various archaeological sites and petroglyphs. About 50 kilometers upstream start on the right bank of the Lena, over 100 kilometer-long stretch of rock formations Lenskije Stolby (Lena Pillars ).

Economy

In Pokrowsk there are companies in the construction (brick, precast concrete, asphalt) and timber industry. In addition, the city center of an agricultural area is (cereals, vegetables, cattle, horses and fur animals).