Khomustakh (russian: Хомустах; sah, Хомустаах, ''Xomustaax'') is a
rural locality
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(a ''
selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the
administrative center
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of
Batagaysky Rural Okrug of
Ust-Aldansky District
Ust-Aldansky District (russian: Усть-Алда́нский улу́с; sah, Уус-Алдан улууһа, ''Uus-Aldan uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or '' ...
in the
Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...
, Russia, located from
Borogontsy
Borogontsy (russian: Борогонцы; sah, Бороҕон, ''Boroğon'') is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the administrative centre of and one of three settlements, in addition to Myndaba and Tomtor, in Myuryunsky Rural Okrug of Ust-Aldan ...
, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the
2010 Census was 542,
[This figure is given for Batagaysky Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Ust-Aldansky Municipal District. According to Law #173-Z 353-III, Khomustakh is the only inhabited locality on the territory of this municipal formation.] of whom 261 were male and 281 female, down from 639 as recorded during the
2002 Census.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'']
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Ust-Aldansky District
*
Rural localities in Ust-Aldansky District
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