Eldikan

Eldikan (Russian Эльдикан; Yakut Элдьикээн ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia) in Russia with 1515 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 320 km as the crow east-southeast of the Republic capital of Yakutsk.

Eldikan part of the Ulus Ust- Maisky and is located about 50 km north-east of the administrative center of Ust- Maya. The settlement is the seat of the municipality ( gorodskoje posselenije ) Possjolok Eldikan, which also includes the village 8 km -j ( "8 mile ", about 7 km south-west of the village center on the right bank of the Aldan ) belongs.

History

The settlement was founded in 1941 by a pier at Aldan, the starting point for the development of the city, in the eastern part of the territory in the catchment areas of the rivers and Judoma Allach -Jun goldfields should be. Since 1947 Eldikan has the status of an urban-type settlement. In 1948, the administrative seat of the 1940 divested from the Ust- Maisky rayon as Allach- Junski rajon eastern part was moved from the settlement Allach -Jun after Eldikan. With the reintegration of Rajons Eldikan lost the management function in 1953 again.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Eldikan is the starting point of a more than 300 -km-long, all-weather road through the gold mining areas in the eastern part of the Ulus to Jugorjonok at the Judoma, with branches to all the mining communities of the area. The settlement is in the ice-free period, reachable only by boat on the Aldan and in winter a ice road on the river today. A street of Chandyga (at the Kolyma highway R504 Nizhny Bestjach - Magadan; 2017 alternatively M56 ) the right bank of the Aldan - up is planned; the first section to Dschebariki - Haya is under construction since 2009. About a winter road to the left of the Aldan, the village is also connected to the Uluszentrum Ust- Maya and continue with about 300 KM away Amga, where a fixed road leads to Nizhny Bestjach in Yakutsk, the shortest link in the Republic 's capital.

The small airport ( ICAO code UEQL ) southwest of the village on the banks of Aldan is currently not served regularly.