Ust-Kuyga

Ust- Kuiga (Russian Усть - Куйга; Yakut Уус Куйга ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia) in Russia with 979 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 925 km as the crow north of the Republic capital Yakutsk on the right bank of Jana, a little below the confluence of the right tributary Kuiga.

Ust- Kuiga part of the Ulus Ust- Janski and is located approximately 190 km west-northwest of the administrative center Deputatski. The settlement is the seat and only town in the municipality ( gorodskoje posselenije ) Possjolok Ust- Kuiga.

Church under construction (2011)

Abandoned Osjornaja Street

In Ust- Kuiga

History

The settlement was founded in 1951 at a jetty on the Jana, as a transshipment base for the development of mineral deposits in the ( present ) Ulussen ( Rajons ) Ust- Janski, Werchojanski and Eweno - Bytantaiski. Since 1967 has Ust- Kuiga the status of an urban-type settlement.

With the decline or cessation of mining in the area, as in Deputatski or nearly 100km north-west Kular, the importance of the settlement declined significantly since the early 1990s, so now more than four-fifths of the former inhabitants left the place.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Ust- Kuiga is the starting point of a nearly 250 -km paved road in the Ulus and mining center Deputatski. Ust- Kuiga itself is in the ice-free period by boat on jana achievable otherwise connected through a winter runway about Batagai and the Verkhoyansk Mountains with Topolinoye, endpoint of a side road from the R504 Kolyma ( M56 ).

A few kilometers east of the village there is a small airport ( ICAO code UEBT ).