Yugoryonok

Jugorjonok (Russian Югорёнок ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia) in Russia with 272 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 500 km as the crow east-southeast of the Republic capital Yakutsk in there a highland region bearing Judoma Maja Highlands. It is located on the right bank of the Judoma that there marks the border with Khabarovsk region, just below the confluence of its right tributary Dschaikanga.

Jugorjonok part of the Ulus Ust- Maisky and is located around 190 km east-southeast of the administrative center of Ust- Maya. The settlement is the seat and only town in the municipality ( gorodskoje posselenije ) Possjolok Jugorjonok.

History

The settlement was founded in 1940 at a jetty on the Judoma, which should serve as a supply base for the development of the gold fields of the area. Initially it belonged to a district, 12 km north of the same name, right tributary of the Dschaikanga incurred gold mining settlement Jur, which received 1942 the status of urban-type settlement.

With the depletion of gold reserves and the transfer of production to other parts of the territory Jur was downgraded in the 1970s to a village (and now abandoned), while Jugorjonok 1978 as urban-type settlement became independent. With the decline of mining in the 1990s, the population of the town declined dramatically.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Jugorjonok endpoint is a 300 km long road that all the gold mining area opens from Eldikan on the right bank of the Aldan in the east of Ust- Maisky ulus.

An airfield north-west of the settlement is since the 1990s out of service.