Khoro (russian: Хоро́; sah, Хоро, ''Xoro'') is a
rural locality (a ''
selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the
administrative center of Khorinsky Rural Okrug of
Verkhnevilyuysky District 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
Verkhnevilyuysk, the administrative center of the district.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''] Its population as of the
2010 Census was 1,221,
[Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the ]Federal State Statistics Service
The Federal State Statistics Service (russian: Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Росстат), ''Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoi statistiki (Rosstat)'') is the governmental statistics ...
. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census
Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам
(''Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities'') up from 1,131 recorded during the
2002 Census.
History
According to the legend, the area of modern Khoro was settled by the Khoro tribes from the
Lena basin, who fled to this area to escape their
Yakut oppressors. A locality here was first mentioned in written sources in connection with the annexation of Yakutia by the
Russian Empire. In 1634, Russian
Cossacks
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, headed by Voin Shakhov, established a winter settlement at the
confluence
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of the
Vilyuy and
Tyukyan rivers. This settlement served as the seat of administration of the surrounding area for several decades, after which it was moved to the Yolyonnyokh area down by the Vilyuy River, where the ''
ostrog'' (fortified settlement) of Olensk (now
Vilyuysk) was founded in 1773.
Modern Khoro was established in 1952 by merging four neighboring
kolkhozes. Until 2003, the official name of the village was Bulgunnyakhtakh (); named so after the post office.
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Verkhnevilyuysky District
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Rural localities in Verkhnevilyuysky District
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