Oymyakonsky District

The Oimjakonski ulus (Russian Оймяконский улус, also Оймяконский район, rajon Oimjakonski; Yakut улууһа Өймөкөөн, Öjmököön uluuha ) is one of the 34 Ulusse ( Rajons ) of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia ) in the north of the Russian Far East Federal District. Located just south of the Arctic Circle on the eastern border of the Republic to the Magadan Oblast and Khabarovsk region inland. The famous because of its cold Records village Oymyakon is the administrative seat of a rural community of Ulus.

Geography

The Ulus has an area of ​​approximately 92,200 km ², slightly larger than Austria. It includes the headwaters of the Indigirka and its upper tributaries. The landscape is mostly high mountain character. The mountains in the south part of the Verkhoyansk Mountains, there reaches its highest peak Mus Haya 2959 m above sea level. North of the Ulus breaks the Indigirka the Tscherskigebirge. There, the 2682 m high rises Chen. In the south and east of the Continental Divide between the Arctic and Pacific Ocean forms the boundary of the Ulus.

The vegetation is protected in layers of taiga, at altitudes from tundra.

Demography

The population began to rise earlier than further north-eastern part of the Republic, as in the field from the 1930s was a part of the Kolyma labor camp, but then remained relatively constant until around 1990. By festzustellende in neighboring Ulussen migration since the end of the Soviet Union, it is now more than half below the value of 1959:

The population is, and rising to over a third of members of indigenous ethnic groups, which is still less than in the surrounding Ulussen. Among the relatives of those who immigrated from the European part of ethnic groups, the proportion of Ukrainians is relatively high in the Republic of comparison.

Communities

Ulus is called Nasleg from two municipal unions urban-type and 5 rural community formations in the Republic of Sakha. End of the 20th century, the Ulus had seven town-like community formations, because of the demographic decline since 1990, a total dissolved five of them in the years 2002 and 2007.

The names of each are shown in the following table only in transliteration and after the semicolon in Cyrillic original spelling:

Traffic

Ulus is crossed from west to east of the Kolyma highway R504 of Nizhny Bestjach at Yakutsk to Magadan, on the Ust- Nera also located.

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