Kystatyam (russian: Кыстатыам; sah, Кыстатыам, ''Kıstatıam'') is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...

(a '' selo''). It is the only inhabited locality and the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

of Lensky Rural Okrug of

Zhigansky District Zhigansky District (russian: Жига́нский улу́с; sah, Эдьигээн улууһа) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the ...

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 ...

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. It is located from

Zhigansk Zhigansk (russian: Жига́нск; sah, Эдьигээн, ''Ecigeen'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Zhigansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River near where i ...

– the administrative center of the district.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'' Its population, as of the 2010 Census was 397,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'') . down from 453, which was recorded during the 2002 Census.

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*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Zhigansky District
* Rural localities in Zhigansky District Populated places on the Lena River {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub