Svetly, Sakha Republic

Svetly (Russian Светлый, Yakut Сибиэтлэй ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia) with 3137 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement lies on the southern edge of the Central Siberian mountains belonging Wiljuiplateaus, about 850 miles as the crow flies west of the capital Yakutsk Republic, near the right bank of the Lena Creek Wiljui. A little below the village opens from the right tributary Otschtschugui - Botuobuja one.

Svetly belongs to Rajon Mirny, whose administrative center Mirny, it is a good 60 km in a north-westerly direction away.

History

The settlement originated in the late 1970s in connection with the construction of an additional dam and hydroelectric power plant on Wiljui below the large Wiljui Reservoir. In 1984 the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded. The place name is in Russian for light; the Yakut name Sibietlej is one of the Yakut phonology adapted form of the Russian word.

The power plant was taken after a long delay in construction due to the economic crisis in the period of the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s and in the 1990s, only between 2004 and 2008 with three of the previously planned four turbines in operation.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

Townscape end company is the hydroelectric plant Wiljui -3 ( Wiljuiskaja GES -3) with a capacity of 270 megawatts ( as hydropower plants Wiljui -1 and Wiljui - 2, the two stages of expansion of the power plant are on Wiljui Reservoir in Chernyshevsky ). That in the construction phase as Svetly hydroelectric power plant ( Swetlinskaja GES) called hydroelectric power plant is operated by a subsidiary of state-controlled diamond mining company Alrosa. In addition, is a building material operation. Many residents of the settlement are also weekly busy " assembly " in the sometimes distant diamond mines in the region or in construction projects in the western part of the Republic of Sakha.

The settlement results in a 33- kilometer access road that branches off from the road Anabar between Mirny and Chernyshevsky. About Svetly can downriver on Wiljui (25 km northeast) located ewenkische village Sjuldjukar in summer by boat, be achieved in winter a ice road.