Nizhnekolymsky District

The Nischnekolymski ulus (Russian Нижнеколымский улус, also Нижнеколымский район, rajon Nischnekolymski; Yakut Аллараа Халыма улууһа, Allaraa Chalyma uluuha ) is one of the 34 Ulusse ( Rajons ) of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia ) in the north of the Russian Far East Federal District. It lies in the north of the republic on the coast of the East Siberian Sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean.

Geography

The Nischnekolymski ulus has an area of ​​approximately 86,800 km ², making it more than twice as large as the Netherlands. It is named after its location on the lower Kolyma River (Russian Nischnjaja Kolyma ), where opposite the mouth of the Anjui on the left bank is the same settlement Nischnekolymsk. The Ulus covers the northeast of the East Siberian lowland. On its territory are located from west to east the lower reaches and estuary of Alaseja and the Kolyma. There are numerous lakes. The Rajonsitz Tscherski lies to the east of Ulus in the lower reaches of the Kolyma.

The vegetation consists mostly of tundra.

Demography

The number of inhabitants had increased more than sixfold from 1939 to 1989, but is now back to just twice the control levels dropped to the level from the beginning of the 1960s:

In the period between the censuses of 2002 and 2010, the total proportion of indigenous ethnic groups also exceeded the target of 50 %, but among them compared with other Ulussen little Yakuts. The proportion of Yukagirs and Chukchi ( the Ulus is bordered to the east by the Autonomous District of the Chukchi ) is the highest among all Ulussen of the Republic, also the evens exceeds the national average.

Communities

The Ulus consists of only four communities, three-quarters of the population lives in Tscherski, an urban-type settlement.

The following table lists the names stand in front of the bar in transliteration, behind in Cyrillic script: