Artyk

Artyk (Russian Артык; Yakut Аартык ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia) in Russia with 509 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 800 km as the crow east-northeast of the Republic capital Yakutsk on the right bank of the Indigirka Creek Nera, just above the confluence of the eponymous inflow Artyk.

Artyk part of the Ulus Oimjakonski and is located approximately 100 km east-southeast of the administrative center of Ust- Nera. The settlement is the seat of the municipality ( gorodskoje posselenije ) Possjolok Artyk, which also includes the village Deljankir (formerly Doroschny ) is about 45 km south-east in the union of the Nera - source rivers Deljankir and Chudschach located directly on the border of Magadan Oblast.

The community part Deljankir is one of the coldest places in the northern hemisphere next to Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk, although not according to the absolute minimum temperature, but the long-term mean annual temperature (1951-1989) was the local weather station with -16.8 ° C or below that of Oymyakon.

History

The settlement was founded in the late 1930s in connection with the construction of the diversion of the Kolymatrasse to Ust- Nera. Since 1957 Artyk has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Chandyga is located on the highway R504 Kolyma, Magadan connects with the Nizhny Bestjach at Yakutsk (previously M56, number until 2017 alternatively in use).