Mar (russian: Мар; sah, Маар, translit=Maar) is a
rural locality
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(a ''
selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the
administrative center
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of
Tyumyuksky Rural Okrug of
Nyurbinsky District
Nyurbinsky District (russian: Нюрби́нский улу́с; sah, Ньурба улууһа ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the administrative divi ...
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
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, located from
Nyurba
Nyurba ( rus, Нюрба, p=nʲʊˈrba; sah, Ньурба, ''Nyurba'' ) is a town and the administrative center of Nyurbinsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Vilyuy River, a right-hand tributary of the Lena, northwest of ...
, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the
2010 Census was 1,061,
[This figure is given for Tyumyuksky Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Nyurbinsky Municipal District. According to Law #173-Z 353-III, Mar is the only inhabited locality on the territory of this municipal formation.] of whom 504 were male and 530 female, down from 1,110 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''
Nyurbinsky District
*
Rural localities in Nyurbinsky District
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