Ust-Nera
Ust- Nera (Russian Усть - Нера, Yakut Уус Ньара / Uus Njara ) is an urban-type settlement in the East Siberian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia ) in Russia with 6463 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). It is the largest city and county seat of Ulus Oymyakon.
Geography
Ust- Nera is located 870 km northeast of Republic capital Yakutsk, in Tscherskigebirge at the mouth of the Nera in the middle reaches of the Indigirka (the word is ust the Russian Ustje, mouth derived ).
The climate is highly continental pronounced. The place is so in one of the coldest inhabited areas of the world: the " cold pole " Oymyakon is located about 200 km south of Ust- Nera.
Ust- Nera is the administrative center of Ulus ( Rajons ) Oymyakon.
The place is connected by a paved road to the center of Magadan Oblast adjacent to the Sea of Okhotsk. After Yakutsk there are no year-round paved road connection. Ust- Nera has an airfield, there is daily flight to Yakutsk.
Ust- Nera beginning of the 1960s
History
The site was developed in connection with the development of gold mining on the Kolyma and Indigirka in the 1930s and was too early Soviet times one of the centers of the Gulag in this part of Siberia.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy
The main industry in and around Ust- Nera is the gold mining industry. There are also approaches for the development of tourism (especially mountain tours, also in winter).